DTMF tone decoding using only a PIC? (no tone decoder chip)

blueroomelectronics

Well-Known Member

• Jun 29, 2007

• #1

I was wondering and googling and found plenty of DTMF tone decoding schematics with PICs but all used a tone decoder IC ie 8870.

I'm sure a dsPIC could do the job but wondered if a 16 or 18 series PIC could.

 

Papabravo

Well-Known Member

• Jun 29, 2007

• #2

The problem is that an incoming tone signal has multiple frequencies in it. That's what DTMF stands for after all. The problem is to separate the components. With a single tone you can just count zero crossings to get the frequency, but multiple tones makes that harder.

You could build some analog filters for each of the tones but that would defeat the purpose of "86-ing" the tone decoder.

You might have some hope with an anti-aliasing filter and a fixed point DFT; but that would need RAM that you dont have in most mid-level PICs.

 

Nigel Goodwin

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Most Helpful Member

• Jun 29, 2007

• #3

If you check the PICList, there's an old project using a mid-range/top-range chip (long before 18F's) that does FFT in software and actually feeds a VGA monitor directly with a simple spectrum analyser type display. So certainly an 18F series chip should be easily capable of detecting DTMF - and I seem to have a vague recallection that I've even seen one somewhere using a 16F chip?.

 

Mike - K8LH

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• Jun 30, 2007

• #4

Did you come across this one in your search (below). It doesn't use a decoder IC but it does use a Microchip op-amp IC.

DTMF Remote Control

 

blueroomelectronics

Well-Known Member

• Jun 30, 2007

• #5

Mike said:

Did you come across this one in your search (below). It doesn't use a decoder IC but it does use a Microchip op-amp IC.

DTMF Remote Control

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That's cool, you know I want to try it with the F88 and its build in comparator.

 

Mike - K8LH

Well-Known Member

• Jun 30, 2007

• #6

I suspect that would work (after taking a very quick glance at the code)...

 

phalanx

Member

• Jul 2, 2007

• #7

You should also check out Microchip application note 257 (AN257). It deals with DTMF detection on PIC18 devices.

 

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pc88

New Member

• Jul 4, 2007

• #8

Here are some more resources for software DTMF decoding:

https://www.electro-tech-online.com/custompdfs/2007/07/slaae16.pdf

https://www.electro-tech-online.com/custompdfs/2007/07/spra096a.pdf

 

Hero999

Banned

• Jul 4, 2007

• #9

How's it normally done with a PIC?

the only way I can think of is making a simple spectrum analyser but performing Fourier transforms but I don't think PICs are fast enough for that,

 

blueroomelectronics

Well-Known Member

• Jul 4, 2007

• #10

Hero999 said:

How's it normally done with a PIC?

the only way I can think of is making a simple spectrum analyser but performing Fourier transforms but I don't think PICs are fast enough for that,

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Appears the 18F can do it, the dsPICs are certanly fast enough an have some FFT instructions in the hardware. Hard to decide as a dsPIC3013 is not an expensive PIC (5V and DIP too)

 

Nigel Goodwin

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Most Helpful Member

• Jul 5, 2007

• #11

Hero999 said:

How's it normally done with a PIC?

the only way I can think of is making a simple spectrum analyser but performing Fourier transforms but I don't think PICs are fast enough for that,

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Perhaps you didn't read my previous post where I explained that it's perfectly possible and there is an example on the PICList?, to be exact it's at

I'm not sure how old it is?, but i'm pretty sure it's back from last century, and uses a 17C756 - so an 18F should do it even easier.

 

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dramrattan

Member

• Oct 22, 2008

• #12

DTMF Monitor and controller

How to monitor the start time, end time, call duration etc using a DTMF decoder and PIC as well as activating an external electrical device using the PIC and decoded DTMF signal?...There are circuits all over the net dooing them seoerately with the PIC16FXX and other microcontrollers but not both at the same time. Could anyone come up with a circuit to do both because i run out of ports when using the PIC16FXX...Tried using the PIC18FXX but still couldn't put together everything...

 

blueroomelectronics

Well-Known Member

• Oct 23, 2008

• #13

How many pins is your 16Fxx? They do make em with plenty of I/O.

 

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dramrattan

Member

• Oct 23, 2008

• #14

Pic I/o

Well the PIC16F84A was the one in consideration when i wrote the post but that only contains 13 I/O pins which wouldn't be enough for the question at hand. I saw the PIC16F877 have more I/O pins though but still can't connect everything into one circuit.

 

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dramrattan

Member

• Oct 23, 2008

• #15

Schematics

These are the schematics in consideration that i was speaking about in the previous post. Probably you would be able to get a better idea from these attachments.

 

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• Activating an electrical device.pdf

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• Call Logger Use this call monitoring together with US4926470.pdf

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• US4926470 Call Monitoring Including call blocking.pdf

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blueroomelectronics

Well-Known Member

• Oct 23, 2008

• #16

Well the 16F84 is really old and the 16F877 or newer 16F887 have plenty of I/O for your call logger. Why not just buy the kit you show in the second PDF?