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rvinterf TM log: decode TMFFS2 commands
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1 It has been discovered that the DSP ROM in the Calypso GSM baseband processor |
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2 implements one nifty feature which is not used at all in standard phone or modem |
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3 operation, but which can be used for all kinds of interesting hacks: the traffic |
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4 channel (TCH) bits coming out of the GSM 05.03 channel decoder in the downlink |
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5 direction (to be fed to the channel mode-appropriate speech decoder) can be read |
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6 out of the DSP's API RAM in real time, and in the uplink direction the user can |
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7 feed her own bits to the input of the GSM 05.03 channel encoder, effectively |
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8 suppressing the output of the internal vocoder. |
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10 The DSP mechanism in question is known to work in TCH/FS and TCH/EFS channel |
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11 modes, corresponding to FR1 and EFR codecs; it also appears to work for TCH/HS |
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12 (HR1 codec), but we (FreeCalypso) haven't tested it because almost no one uses |
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13 that infamous HR1 codec - the commercial GSM network in our part of the world |
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14 gives you a full-rate channel if your phone does not support AMR. It would be |
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15 possible to implement HR1 in our own test GSM network, but the effort that would |
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16 be required is difficult to justify. Exploring TCH tap modes with AMR or CSD |
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17 traffic channels is likewise a subject for further study. |
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19 In order to make use of this TCH bit access feature, one needs 3 things: |
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21 1) Firmware on the Calypso (the ARM part) that reads downlink bits from the DSP |
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22 and writes uplink bits into it while doing everything else that a GSM fw must |
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23 do in order to operate the MS; |
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25 2) Some protocol for passing these TCH bits into and out of the Calypso device; |
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27 3) A source for TCH UL bits and a sink for TCH DL bits on the external host. |
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29 In the case of FreeCalypso, we have defined our own protocol for passing TCH |
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30 bits into and out of Calypso GSM devices running one of our firmwares in the |
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31 form of an extension to TI's RVTMUX interface, i.e., we have defined a new |
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32 RVTMUX channel for this TCH interface and defined the packet types and formats |
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33 to be sent over the wire. On the Calypso side the special functionality in |
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34 question was originally implemented in FC Citrine firmware in 2016 and then set |
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35 aside for some years; when the right time came to resurrect this feature in late |
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36 2022, it turned out that the original implementation from 2016 was slightly |
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37 incorrect, and the new implementation in FC Tourmaline fw is slightly different. |
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38 On the host tools side the RVTMUX-based TCH interface is supported in rvinterf |
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39 and fc-shell; the new version as of fc-host-tools-r18 supports both 2016 and |
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40 2022 versions of this over-the-wire interface. |
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42 The TCH bit access mechanism in FreeCalypso has been designed with an objective |
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43 of presenting to the user exactly what TI's DSP presents to us, i.e., standing |
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44 out of the way as much as possible. TI's DSP presents TCH downlink bits and |
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45 accepts TCH uplink bits in the form of an array of 16-bit words; the bit order |
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46 within these words corresponds to the GSM 05.03 channel encoder bit order (with |
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47 a couple of TI-specific quirks documented below) and NOT that of the GSM 06.10 |
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48 or EFR codecs. On the RVTMUX serial interface between the Calypso device and |
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49 the external host we transfer each TCH frame as a block of 33 bytes; our Calypso |
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50 firmwares translate between these bytes and the DSP's 16-bit words, but do not |
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51 reorder or change the bits in any way. |
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53 On the host tools side our fc-shell utility provides user commands to save TCH |
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54 DL bits into a file and to play TCH UL bits from a file; in the present version |
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55 these files are written and read in an ASCII-based hex format. In these ASCII |
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56 files each TCH frame is represented as a string of 66 hexadecimal digits, and |
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57 these hex digits correspond directly to the 33 bytes being read out of or |
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58 written into DSP API words. Therefore, in order to generate and/or interpret |
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59 these hexadecimal strings correctly, you (the user) need to understand the bit |
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60 order and mapping used by TI's implementation of the GSM 05.03 channel encoder. |
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62 As of late 2022, there is a new TCH-tap-modes article in our freecalypso-docs |
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63 repository that covers in detail the format of TI's DSP buffers for TCH DL and |
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64 UL bits, as well as all known information about TCH DL status words and bit |
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65 flags. But here is our original description from 2016: |
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67 Recall from the GSM specs that the 260 bits which comprise one speech frame are |
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68 not all treated equally, instead they are divided into 182 class 1 bits which |
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69 are protected by a convolutional encoder and 78 class 2 bits which are |
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70 transmitted without any forward error correction. Furthermore, the first 50 of |
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71 the class 1 bits are also protected by a CRC. The order in which the bits |
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75 Now let's look at the actual bit order and mapping which you need to understand |
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76 in order to make sense of the hex strings in tch record and tch play files. |
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77 The bit numbering is from the most significant bit to the least significant bit, |
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79 digit is bit 0 and the least significant bit of the rightmost digit is bit 263. |
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80 TI's DSP assigns these bits as follows: |
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82 * Bits 0 through 181 correspond to the 182 protected (class 1) bits in the |
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83 standard GSM 05.03 order; |
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85 * Bits 182 through 185 are unused - put zeros there if you are generating them |
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88 * Bits 186 through 263 correspond to the 78 unprotected (class 2) bits in the |
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89 standard GSM 05.03 order. |
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91 TCH DL recording |
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94 When you are in an established voice call in fc-shell, you can record the |
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95 downlink TCH bits as follows: |
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97 tch record <name of file to put the recording into> |
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99 If you would like to record an entire call from the beginning, issue the |
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100 tch record command as above before the ATD or ATA command that dials or answers |
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101 the call. Either way, whether you are recording a call from the beginning or |
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102 from the middle, you need to eventually stop your recording with this command: |
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106 You can issue this stop command before or after the call is terminated, but |
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128 just-mentioned library pieces (neither the Rx DTX handler for FR1 nor a proper, |
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140 Please don't use the old fc-tch2fr utility - the function it performs is now |
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157 to disable stereo, otherwise the recording will be slowed down 2x. |
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158 Alternatively, you can use our new gsmfr-encode utility (gsm-codec-lib |
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163 prepare a speech sample in the EFR codec format instead. You will need to |
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164 use Themyscira gsmefr-encode or gsmefr-encode-r utilities, or convert from |
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168 gsmx format (EFR) into our ad hoc hex strings for playing into a TCH uplink: |
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180 You should now hear the speech sample you recorded in step 1 above on the other |
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195 of course we do NOT recommend it for production use.) Therefore, if you wish |
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196 to play with EFR, you need to tell the network (via the Bearer Capabilities |
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197 information element in CC messages) that your MS does not support AMR, and if |
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198 you wish to play with FR1, you need to tell the network that your MS only |
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202 FreeCalypso firmwares, probably a custom AT command, that will modify the |
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203 Bearer Capabilities IE (artificially restrict the set of supported codecs) on a |
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