Adjustable attenuation member for a digital telecommunications system

摘要

A digital telecommunications system having an adjustable attenuation member incorporates first and second memories for altering the values of different pulse code modulated words, representing different amplitude values of transmitted waves, such as tone frequencies. One of the memories alters the first three amplitude bit values of a special pulse code modulated word to alter the values for example in six-dB steps. The other memory defines the values of smaller steps. The change of the output code from the first memory and the determination of the characteristic to be output by the second memory is dependent upon control signals from a control unit.