PWM power audio amplifier with voltage/current mixed feedback for high-efficiency speakers

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1141-1149

  Adduci, Pietro ^a   Botti, Edoardo ^a   Dallago, Enrico ^b   Venchi, Giuseppe ^b  

^a STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Audio amplifiers; High efficiency speakers (HESs); Mixed feedback amplifiers; Switching amplifiers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS; LIMITERS; LOUDSPEAKERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

AUDIO AMPLIFIERS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SPEAKERS; MIXED FEEDBAXK AMPLIFIERS; SWITCHING AMPLIFIERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34247127055     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2007.892610     Document Type: Article

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