Class AB amplifiers have been the workhorses of the audio world, thanks to their simplicity, and their ability to deliver high power levels with low distortion. But there are also a number of gremlins that lurk within the AB architecture, mostly in ...
Class D audio amplifiers provide a dual benefit for battery-powered portable devices (Figure 1). They enhance battery life, and they produce much less power dissipation than do their linear cousins. Those features make Class D amplifiers ideal ...
The simple peak detector in Figure 1 is the result of a need for a single-5V-supply, level/clipping indicator for a multimedia-PC sound system. The design is unique in that it detects both stereo channels on a single peak-hold capacitor. All the ...
In low-noise analog circuits, a high-gain amplifier serves at the input to increase the SNR. The input signal level determines the input-stage gain; low-level signals require the highest gain. It is also standard practice in low-noise analog-signal ...
Guy Hoover, Analog Devices Electronic Design A high-resolution SAR ADC often needs a higher-order antialiasing filter, such as the third-order version provided by this low-noise, low-power design. For many analog-to-digital converter (ADC) ...
Question: Can I produce a compact, ultralow noise, phantom power supply (48 V) from a 5 V, 12 V, or 24 V input? Answer: You can, using a simple boost converter, a filter circuit to reduce EMI, and a little trickery to keep the size small. ...
Henno Normet Electronic Design The amplifier within a standard AV receiver can become a fully adjustable, three-phase power supply by adding a general-purpose op amp, a few passive components, and some standard transformers. If you need an ...
Derek Bowers Electronic Design Early radio receivers and record players nearly always had a knob marked “tone,” which was usually a crude low-pass filter with some form of severity adjustment. At best, these controls could partially ...
There have been many different ideas presented for increasing the acoustic output of a piezo buzzer or ultrasonic transducer. Most of them involve rather complicated circuitry that drives up the total solution cost; such as boosting the low-voltage ...
José M Miguel EDN Testing audio-noise-reduction circuits, PLLs (phase-locked loops), and audio-frequency filters may require a noisy sine wave, one that is summed with white noise. Using a typical computer sound card, free software, and an ...