To perform correct measurements on a true digital audio amplifier (TDAA), it is important to understand the characteristics of the device, especially in comparison with conventional linear amplifiers such as class-A and class-AB. This report provides an overview of TI’s proprietary digital amplification technology and information about how measurements on TDAA’s must be performed in order to ob...

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The fundamental problem of pulse-width modulation (PWM) based open-loop digital Class-D audio power amplifiers is the inherent nonlinearity of the PWM process, which necessitates the application of a precompensating linearization algorithm. Severe technical difficulties arising from the stringent speed requirements of both electronic circuitry, and digital signal processing devices make the imp...

Nowadays the main driving parameters for the radio transmitter research are: energy efficiency, frequency re-configurability and integration. Pulsed transmitter architectures have attracted large interest in the recent years due to their potential to meet these demands. In pulsed transmitters, a highly efficient switch mode power amplifier (SMPA) is used in conjunction with a pulse modulator to...

The Class-E power amplifier is widely used due to its high efficiency, resulting from switching at zero voltage and zero slope of the switch voltage. In this paper, we extend general analytical solutions for the Class-E power amplifier to the ideal single-ended Variable-Voltage Class-E (Class-Evv) power amplifier that switches at zero slope but not necessarily at zero voltage. The theory is ver...