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Impedance Matching Design Equations for the
HC5509 Series of SLICs
Introduction
The HC5509 Series of SLICs use feedback to synthesize the
impedance at the 2-wire tip and ring terminals. The network
is capable of synthesizing both resistive and complex imped-
ances. Matching the SLIC’s 2-wire impedance to the load is
important to maximize power transfer and 2-wire return loss.
The 2-wire return loss is a measure of the similarity of the
impedance of a transmission line (tip and ring) and the
impedance at it’s termination. It is a ratio, expressed in deci-
bels, of the power of the outgoing signal to the power of the
signal reflected back from an impedance discontinuity.
This application note will discuss the basic DC operation of
the tip and ring amplifiers for an understanding of the reac-
tion between the tip and ring amplifiers, the requirements for
impedance matching and the derivation of the design equa-
tions for calculating the required feedback components for
both resistive and complex impedances. The analysis will
use the HC5509B as the basis for the discussion. Design
solutions for the HC5509A1R3060, HC5524 and HC5517
are provided in Table 1.
Tip and Ring Amplifiers
The tip and ring amplifiers are voltage feedback op amps
that are connected to generate a differential output (e.g. if tip
sources 20mA then ring sinks 20mA). Figure 1 shows the
connection of the tip and ring amplifiers. The tip DC voltage
is set by an internal +2V reference, resulting in -4V at the
output. The ring DC voltage is set by the tip DC output volt-
age and an internal V
BAT
/2 reference, resulting in V
BAT
+4V
at the output (see Equations 1, 2 and 3).
Requirements for Impedance matching
Impedance matching of the HC5509B application circuit to
the transmission line requires that the impedance be
matched to points “A” and “B” in Figure 2. To do this, the
sense resistors R
B1
, R
B2
, R
B3
and R
B4
must be accounted
for by the feedback network to make it appear as if the out-
put of the tip and ring amplifiers are at points “A” and “B”.
The feedback network takes a voltage that is equal to the
voltage drop across the sense resistors and feeds it into the
summing node of the tip amplifier. The effect of this is to
cause the tip feed voltages to become more negative by a
value that is proportional to the voltage drop across the
sense resistors R
B1
and R
B2
. At the same time the ring
amplifier becomes more positive by the same amount to
account for resistors R
B3
and R
B4
.
The net effect cancels out the voltage drop across the feed
resistors. By nullifying the effects of the feed resistors the
feedback circuitry becomes relatively easy to match the
impedance at points “A” and “B”.
V
TIP FEED
V
C
2V
–
-----------
4V
–
=
=
=
(EQ. 1)
V
RING FEED
V
D
V
--------------
1
R
R
---
+
V
TIP FEED
–
=
=
(EQ. 2)
V
D
V
BAT
4
+
=
(EQ. 3)
C
V
OUT1
2V
DC
V
BAT
2
V
IN
-
+V
C
R
B1
R
B2
R
R
R
2R
2R
R
R/2
R
L
TIP FEED
RING FEED
GROUNDED
FOR DC
ANALYSIS
+
V
RX
V
FB
+
-
A
B
D
R
B3
R
B4
+
-
+V
D
+
-
+
-
FIGURE 1. OPERATION OF THE TIP AND RING AMPLIFIERS
Application Note
October 1996
AN9607.1