Undesirable audio click and pop may be generated in a speaker or headphone.Compared to linear（class A/B/AB） amplifiers,class D amplifiers that comprise of an input stage and a modulation stage are more prone to prod...Undesirable audio click and pop may be generated in a speaker or headphone.Compared to linear（class A/B/AB） amplifiers,class D amplifiers that comprise of an input stage and a modulation stage are more prone to producing click and pop.This article analyzes sources that generate click and pop in class D amplifiers,and corresponding ways to suppress them.For a class D amplifier with a single-ended input,click and pop is likely to be due to two factors.One is from a voltage difference（KDIF） between the voltage of an input capacitance（Vcin） and a reference voltage（Vref） of the input stage,and the other one is from the non-linear switching during the setting up of the bias and feedback voltages/currents（BFVC） of the modulation stage.In this article,a fast charging loop is introduced into the input stage to charge F_（CIN） to roughly near VREF.Then a correction loop further charges or discharges V_（CIN）,substantially equalizing it with KREF.Dummy switches are introduced into the modulation stage to provide switching signals for setting up BFVC,and the power switches are disabled until the BFVC are set up successfully.A two channel single-ended class D amplifier with the above features is fabricated with 0.5μm Bi-CMOS process.Road test and fast Fourier transform analysis indicate that there is no noticeable click and pop.展开更多
This paper investigates the noise sources in a single-ended class D amplifier（SECDA） and suggests corresponding ways to lower the noise.The total output noise could be expressed as a function of the gain and noises ...This paper investigates the noise sources in a single-ended class D amplifier（SECDA） and suggests corresponding ways to lower the noise.The total output noise could be expressed as a function of the gain and noises from different sources.According to the function,the bias voltage（V_B） is a primary noise source,especially for a SECDA with a large gain.A low noise SECDA is obtained by integrating a filter into the SECDA to lower the noise of the V_B.The filter utilizes an active resister and an 80 pF capacitance to get a 3 Hz pole.A noise test and fast Fourier transform analysis show that the noise performance of this SECDA is the same as that of a SECDA with an external filter.展开更多
文摘Undesirable audio click and pop may be generated in a speaker or headphone.Compared to linear（class A/B/AB） amplifiers,class D amplifiers that comprise of an input stage and a modulation stage are more prone to producing click and pop.This article analyzes sources that generate click and pop in class D amplifiers,and corresponding ways to suppress them.For a class D amplifier with a single-ended input,click and pop is likely to be due to two factors.One is from a voltage difference（KDIF） between the voltage of an input capacitance（Vcin） and a reference voltage（Vref） of the input stage,and the other one is from the non-linear switching during the setting up of the bias and feedback voltages/currents（BFVC） of the modulation stage.In this article,a fast charging loop is introduced into the input stage to charge F_（CIN） to roughly near VREF.Then a correction loop further charges or discharges V_（CIN）,substantially equalizing it with KREF.Dummy switches are introduced into the modulation stage to provide switching signals for setting up BFVC,and the power switches are disabled until the BFVC are set up successfully.A two channel single-ended class D amplifier with the above features is fabricated with 0.5μm Bi-CMOS process.Road test and fast Fourier transform analysis indicate that there is no noticeable click and pop.
文摘This paper investigates the noise sources in a single-ended class D amplifier（SECDA） and suggests corresponding ways to lower the noise.The total output noise could be expressed as a function of the gain and noises from different sources.According to the function,the bias voltage（V_B） is a primary noise source,especially for a SECDA with a large gain.A low noise SECDA is obtained by integrating a filter into the SECDA to lower the noise of the V_B.The filter utilizes an active resister and an 80 pF capacitance to get a 3 Hz pole.A noise test and fast Fourier transform analysis show that the noise performance of this SECDA is the same as that of a SECDA with an external filter.
