DocumentCode
919811
Title
Design of Three-Stage Class-AB 16 
Headphone Driver Capable of Handling Wide Range of Load Capacitance
Author
Dhanasekaran, Vijay ; Silva-Martinez, Jose ; Sanchez-Sinencio, Edgar
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Volume
44
Issue
6
fYear
2009
fDate
6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1734
Lastpage
1744
Abstract
In this paper, the effect of load capacitance variation on the location of the closed loop poles of three-stage amplifiers is analyzed and a frequency compensation scheme that automatically adjusts the damping factor according to the load capacitance is proposed. A class-AB 16 Omega headphone driver designed using the proposed scheme in 0.13 mum technology can handle 1 pF to 22 nF capacitive load while consuming as low as 1.2 mW of quiescent power. It can deliver a peak power of 40 mW (1.6 Vpp swing) to the load with - 84.8 dB THD and 92 dB peak SNR. It occupies 0.1 mm2 area.
Keywords
audio-frequency amplifiers; power amplifiers; power 40 mW; resistance 16 ohm; size 0.13 mum; Capacitance; Damping; Driver circuits; Energy consumption; Equivalent circuits; Headphones; Load management; Peak to average power ratio; Performance gain; Power amplifiers; Class-AB amplifiers; audio power amplifiers; capacitive loaded amplifiers; class-AB drivers; headphone drivers; multi-stage amplifiers;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9200
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JSSC.2009.2020461
Filename
4982871
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