MT8870 DTMF Decoder Chip

The applications for DTMF signaling are tremendous and due to innovative technological advances its use is increasingly widespread. DTMF offers highly reliable, cost effective signaling solutions which require no development effort on the users part. The advent of single chip receivers has allowed many products that was previously not cost-effective to be manufactured in production quantities .DTMF signaling was originally designed for telephony signaling over voice quality telephone Lines. This signaling technique has been applied to a multitude of control and data communications Systems. All that is required is a voice quality communication channel with appropriate Interfacing. The applications are limited only by ones imagination.

In our circuit the D.T.M.F input is taken from the mobile phone present in the circuit and fed to the MT8870 integrated circuit. This I.C decodes the Dual Tone Multi Frequency into four bit data and sends it to the Micro-Controller with the help of the buffer .To synchronize the I.C with the Micro-Controller a external clock of 3.58 MHz is used .The four bit data is sent through a buffer for the case of amplification of the data signals. The need of decoding the data into four

bits because, in this prototype model we only use twelve combinations since four decoding bits give us sixteen combinations of output so these combinations are more than enough.