Dusting off my T1-to-USB telephony interface project
Channel: Jared Boone
Date: 22/09/2021

I go over my Tedium project, which interfaces eight T1 telecom lines to a computer via high-speed USB. The project uses nMigen and LUNA code to make FPGA and USB development easier and more testable.

The long-term plan is to use this hardware at the ToorCamp hacker camp (hopefully in 2022, if COVID-19 cooperates). We'll provide up to 192 lines of analog phone service to your tent, and integrate with the incumbent local exchange carrier, ShadyTel. And if you bring a telephone modem for your computer, there will be BBSes to call. And there might be some 1970s-era Bell System "features" you can exploit, too. ;-)

The Tedium project is open-source: https://github.com/jboone/tedium
More about ToorCamp: https://toorcamp.org
nMigen: https://github.com/nmigen/nmigen
LUNA: https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/luna

Livestream recorded 2021 September 8 at https://twitch.tv/sharebrained