From MATLAB® and Simulink® to

Real Time with TI DSPs

Dual Tone Multi Frequency

(DTMF)

Content developed in partnership with

Tel-Aviv University

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DTMF Signals

• The DTMF is a popular signaling method between

telephones and switching centers

• DTMF is also used for signaling between the

Telephone network and computer networks

• The DTMF signals are Transmitted over a telephone

line

• Uses speech frequency signals

• DTMF signals are the superposition of 2 sine waves

with different frequencies
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The DTMF Keypad

1209 Hz 1336 Hz 1477 Hz

697 Hz 1 2 3

770 Hz 4 5 6

852 Hz 7 8 9

941 Hz * 0 #

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DTMF Digits

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DTMF Generation

697 Hz

Row 770 Hz
Selector
852 Hz

Desired 941 Hz

Digit
+ Dual
Tone
1209 Hz

Column
Selector 1336 Hz

1477 Hz

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DTMF Detection

Leading
Edge
Detection

Enable

Frequency Convert
x[n] Detection to Display

Display

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Frequency Detection
Row
Calculation
697 Hz

770 Hz

852 Hz

941 Hz Digit
Calculated
Digit
x[n] Column
Calculation

Calculation

1209 Hz

1336 Hz

1477 Hz

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Simulation (cont.)

Selecting Digits for transmission

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Simulation (cont.)

Detected Digits

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Simulation (cont.)

• The Receiver Performs:

Signal
sensing Edge Detected

Rcv

samples
Buffer Detect
New Digit
Digit Digit

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Simulation (cont.)
• Digit Detection: transforms signal received to digit
using the following detection blocks:
X1 … XN

852 Hz
Detect

941 Hz
Detect
1209 Hz
Detect
Detect 1 2 3
697 Hz

Detect
770 Hz
4 5 6
X1 … XN

Detect 7 8 9
852 Hz

Detect * 0 #
941 Hz
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Simulation (cont.)
• Detection block operation:
– Input: X1…XN signal samples
– Output: flag to indicate whether the signal has a correlation with
the frequency under detection or not
– Implementation:

» Band Pass around the frequency under detection

» Average the absolute value of the BPF output
» Comparing the average to an agreed threshold
» Flag is up  the average is greater than the threshold

=
N
Detect BPF 1 Threshold
fb
X1…XN
(fb-eps , fb+eps) N

k 1 Test
flag

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Real-Time Environment

• Based on the Simulation model

• R-T Implementation involves detecting the digits

only

• The R-T Simulation involves a few modification to

support the interface with the transmitter

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Real-Time Environment (cont.)

PC MATLAB:
 DTMF transmission
GUI

PC
(Sound Card)

rtdx Detected Digits

DTMF

Line In

A/D DTMF Receiver

x t 
TMS320C6713

DSK6713

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Real Time Environment (cont.)

• The DTMF signal is processed in order to overcome

DC offset and to make amplitude modifications:

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GUI Functionality
• Load the DSK

• Initialize RTDX

• Create DTMF samples

• Transmit them to PC Sound

Card

• Display Dialed and Dtected

Digits for comparison

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The System
Transmitted
Digit GUI

Sound Card
USB

Reported Digit
)RTDX(

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