A multi-loop voltage-feedback filterless class-D switching audio amplifier using unipolar pulse-width-modulation

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 312-319

  Oliva, Alejandro R ^a,b   Ang, Simon S ^a   Vo, Thuy V ^a,c  

^a 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier distortion; Audio amplifier; Class D amplifier; Feedback amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Switching amplifiers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER DISTORTION; AUDIO AMPLIFIER; CLASS D AMPLIFIER; FREQUENCY COMPENSATION TECHNIQUE; PHASE DISTORTION; SWITCHING AMPLIFIER; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION; VOLTAGE FEEDBACK;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY CONTROL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HARMONIC DISTORTION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 1942487742     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2004.1277879     Document Type: Article

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