PAPER SESSION 6: MEASUREMENTS AND TESTS
6-3 Click and Pop Measuring Technique
Tomas
Bruunshuus S�rensen. Texas Instruments Denmark
A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
During various occasions a digital amplifier can generate
a click or a pop. The click is generated at changes of the
operational modes of the amplifier, e.g., charging of
capacitors or mute / unmute. For class D amplifier systems
click is typically at PWM start and stop. The audibility
of a click is very dependent on the system, amplifier,
and speaker. Also, perception of the click is subjective.
This makes it difficult to compare the
results from two different systems. This paper specifies a
measurement technique, which can be used for all systems
and makes results comparable, and give
limits to what is acceptable in an end application. The
described measurement technique applies to all
systems, which have a start up sequence of less than 1
ms. For Purepath systems this applies to TAS5026,
TAS5036, TAS5066, TAS5076, TAS5028, TAS5508,
and TAS5518. Measurements on 2 EVM�s TAS5066-
5121K6EVM and TAS5508-5121K6EVM are shown for
reference.
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