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High Performance Digital Feedback for PWM Digital Audio Amplifiers

Authors: Midya, Pallab; Paulo, Theresa; Roeckner, Bill

AES Convention 121 · Paper 6862 · October 2006

Abstract

Non-idealities associated with the power stage of pulse width modulated (PWM) based, open loop digital audio amplifiers limit their performance. A high performance digital feedback system corrects for both power supply noise and power stage non-linearity in a PWM digital audio amplifier. An integrated circuit (IC) implementation of this system, along with measured results, is presented. The PWM amplifier, switching between 300 kHz and 400 kHz, achieves an unweighted dynamic range in excess of 100 dB, linearity in excess of 80 dB, and excellent power supply rejection (PSR) with a large scale audio signal.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 121
AES Convention
121
Paper number
6862
Publication date
October 6, 2006
Session subject
Digital Amplifiers
Affiliation
Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper