Well, you can say that until you're blue in the face, and I'd agree with you every time, but the fact is that if pushed, France Telecom would be likely to try and get AFNOR to change the YES vote to NO. We got a flavour of this last week from the FT people at the TE5 meeting - they've got something up their sleeve anyway. Everyone is well aware of the power dissipation problem, but that's the way it is. The hard fact of life is that PCMCIA modem manufacturers will have to suffer for the greater good of the rest of the industry...sorry!
Regards, Alan ---------- From: treg-approval To: treg Cc: treg Subject: RE: Status of prTBR 21 List-Post: [email protected] Date: 25 September 1996 10:28 Alan, About midnight last night, in a moment of inspiration, I was able to come up with a holding circuit that has DC characteristics falling in the middle of TBR 21 Figure 4. It is the strangest holding circuit I've ever design and V.34 has no problems with it. The French may get testy when pestered about DC characteristics, but it is almost impossible to design a PCMCIA card that will survive current limit testing. I don't believe any PCMCIA cards will pass TBR 21 approvals. The cards will simply not dissipate 2.2 Watts and survive. Regards, Duane ______________________________ On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Charlton, Alan wrote: > > Glad to help - I want TBR 21 as badly as anyone! It's worth noting that the > DC characteristics are unlikely to change in the short term, and the French > started getting shirty when pestered about it... > > Regards, > Alan > ---------- > From: treg-approval > To: treg > Cc: treg > Subject: RE: Status of prTBR 21 > Date: 24 September 1996 14:15 > > Alan, > > Thank very much for the update. I'm just starting the design of a > universal DAA that hopefully will meet all TBR 21 requirements. > > All of the DAA circuits meet TBR 21, but I'm still a bit stymied by the > holding circuit templated that requires limiting the line current to 60 mA > when sourced through a 230 ohm resistor. I think the design is very close > to meeting the template. I will know in next day or two. > > Again, thanks for the update. > > Regards, Duane >
