DC holding circuitry that may be implemented with other parts of a DAA circuit
to terminate a telephone connections at the user's end. The DC holding circuitry
may be implemented using a synthesized inductor circuit powered by DC termination
circuitry of a DAA telephone line circuit to provide quiet current that may be
mirrored to provide the DC holding. The DC holding circuitry may be further implemented
to actively steer DC holding current into multiple external transistors to share
the power burden, and using an op-amp gain/feedback configuration to achieve low
noise and distortion without the need for expensive capacitor-based filter and
high powered transistor components. Variable biasing and active current steering
may be employed to permit one or more external resistor/s to help dissipate power.
The disclosed DC holding circuitry may also be implemented with a fast transient
network having a single stage of fast transient filtering placed in the input network.
A fast off-hook settling circuit block may also be implemented to achieve fast
settling times by using an op-amp to clamp the receive pin voltage of a DAA circuit.