PAPER SESSION 6: MEASUREMENTS AND TESTS
6-1 Measuring Distortion in Switching Amplifiers
Bruce Hofer. Audio Precision, Inc., Beaverton, OR,
USA
The distortion performance of switching amplifiers
(a.k.a. �Class-D� amplifiers) has rapidly improved in
recent years. Unfortunately they still exhibit a form
of high-frequency nonlinearity that is not clearly
revealed by traditional THD+N and SMPTE-IMD
tests. The Twin-Tone IMD measurement technique
provides an excellent way to measure this form of
distortion.
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