Patent ID: 7050509

Claim:
A telecommunication phone line hybrid circuit for processing an analog transmitted signal to be coupled to a communication system at a phone line hybrid transmitter node and an analog received signal received from the communication system at a phone line hybrid receiver node, wherein the received signal includes a portion of the transmitted signal, the hybrid circuit comprising: a hybrid transmitter amplifier having an output coupled to the phone line hybrid transmitter node; a hybrid receiver amplifier having a first input coupled to the phone line hybrid receiver node; an attenuated signal path between the input of the hybrid transmitter amplifier and a subtractive input of the hybrid receiver amplifier; and a calibration mode switch coupled between the hybrid receiver amplifier and the phone line hybrid receiver node, the calibration mode switch alternately connecting the first input of the hybrid receiver amplifier to the phone line hybrid receiver node or to a preselected signal, wherein when the calibration mode switch connects the first input of the hybrid receiver amplifier to the preselected signal, the subtractive input of the hybrid receiver amplifier is still connected to the attenuated signal path so that the same hybrid receiver amplifier that receives the preselected signal at the first input node the first input of thre hybrid receiver amplifier also receives at ther subtractive input of the hybrid receiver amplifier the subtractive input node an attenuated signal version of a signal at the input of the hybrid transmitter amplifier.