• DocumentCode
    1619251
  • Title

    Two Class-D audio amplifiers with 89/90% efficiency and 0.02/0.03% THD+N consuming less than 1mW of quiescent power

  • Author

    Rojas-González, Miguel A. ; Sánchez-Sinencio, Edgar

  • Author_Institution
    Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    450
  • Abstract
    This work presents two different design methodologies to implement high- performance Class-D audio amplifiers with minimal power consumption. Both topologies are based on the same principle: a binary-modulation (two-level) amplifier (BMA) and a ternary-modulation (three-level) amplifier (TMA), using variable structure control.
  • Keywords
    CMOS analogue integrated circuits; audio-frequency amplifiers; harmonic distortion; low-power electronics; variable structure systems; CMOS technology; THD+N; audio driver; audio modulator; binary-modulation amplifier; class-D audio amplifier; low-power requirement; sliding-mode controller; ternary-modulation amplifier; total harmonic distortion plus noise; variable structure control; Energy consumption; Hysteresis; Linearity; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Pulse width modulation; Signal generators; Sliding mode control; Switches; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers, 2009. ISSCC 2009. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3458-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2009.4977502
  • Filename
    4977502