PCB design can limit the performance or reduce the reliability of a class-D amplifier if some basic layout guidelines are not followed. The following describes some good PC board layout practices for ...

A Zobel is an impedance matching circuit often used with loudspeakers. A Zobel circuit is also known as a Boucherot cell or somewhat incorrectly as an RC snubber. The nominal impedance of a ...

The switching amplifier, or class D amplifier, has risen quickly to prominence in consumer audio applications, from MP3 devices including mobile phone handsets to games consoles, LCD-TVs, and home ...

Hang around in any of the many guitar or audiophile forums or discussion boards for long enough, and eventually you’ll come across the arguments over amplifier topologies. One of the more interesting ...

Embedded electronics has continued to ramp up across the automotive landscape, taking on more substantial roles in many applications. One example is the presence of multiple class-D audio amplifiers ...

NeoEnergy Microelectronics (NEM), a startup IC design company specializing in analog and mixed-signal chips, has released a Class-D audio power amplifier targeting slim type digital TVs and other ...

[Ben Laskowski’s] been working on a Class-D audio amplifier for several months. What you see above is the most recent version of the amp. A class-D amplifier uses transistor switching (or in this case ...

Class-D audio amplifiers are power efficient, but do not beat, or even match, well-designed Class-AB and Class-A amplifiers on many other specs. This said, Delft University of Technology, working with ...

STMicroelectronics has tied up with Japanese audio company Alps Alpine to create an automotive class-D audio amplifier IC. Called FDA901, “the chip aims to contribute to the creation of multi-function ...

Technology has democratized the music industry in many obvious ways – notice how every band, regardless of stature, has a MySpace page? But one of technology's more subtle effects has been to make our ...