High-fidelity PWM inverter for digital audio amplification: Spectral analysis, real-time DSP implementation, and results

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages 473-485

  Pascual, César ^a   Song, Zukui ^a   Krein, Philip T ^a   Sarwate, Dilip V ^a   Midya, Pallab ^b   Roeckner, William Bill J ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Class D amplifier; Digital audio amplifier; Noise shaping; Pulse width modulation; Uniform and natural sampling

Indexed keywords

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIGITAL FILTERS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DATA CONVERSION; DIGITAL AUDIO AMPLIFIER; LAGRANGE EXPANSION THEOREM; NOISE SHAPING PROCESS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION INVERTER;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 0037259068     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2002.807102     Document Type: Article

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