Audio Amplifier

Design of a High Range, High Efficiency Spread Spectrum Transmitter for Audio Communication Applications

This work proposes a direct sequence spread spectrum transmitter with high transmission range and efficiency for audio signals. It is shown that by choosing high process gain for spread spectrum signal the data could reach a range of 55km in the 2.4GHz ISM band. By employing a light modulation scheme, we have a relaxed SNR requirement for having a low bit error rate (BER) which translates to re...

High Power Switching Audio Power Amplifier with symmetrical topology and digital control

A new symmetrical topology switching power amplifier is introduced for professional audio use. The amplifier is composed by a pair of semi soft switched half-bridges with independent feedback control. Whole overall layout looks very similar than an already bridge configured stereo amplifier with few exceptions. Although the complexity of the proposed topology is at least twice of the convention...

Class D audio amplifier with Ferroxcube gapped toroid output filter

Measuring Class-D Amplifiers for Audio Speaker Overstress Testing

Determining if audio speaker limitations are violated can be challenging when using Class-D amplifiers. To obtain valid results, it is necessary to carefully analyze and interpret the switching behavior of the output signals . Filter-free Class-D amplifiers further complicate measurement because they do not require an output filter and the speaker can be connected directly to the amplifier outp...

Design a New Architecture of Audio Amplifier Class-D for Cellular Phones

This paper presents a new architecture of class D audio amplifier with 0.4 W output power and 95% efficiency with an 8 ohm load. This class D uses a pulse width modulation scheme that eliminates the output filter. It operates with a 2.4 V to 5V supply voltage. The fully differential class-D audio amplifier is implemented with a TSMC 0.13-um 2P4M CMOS process, and the chip area is 325 x 300 um2....