Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multiphase pulse width modulator for class D audio amplifiers
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Application No.: US14917688Application Date: 2014-09-01
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Publication No.: US09628064B2Publication Date: 2017-04-18
- Inventor: Allan Nogueras Nielsen , Mikkel Høyerby
- Applicant: Merus Audio ApS
- Applicant Address: DK Herlev
- Assignee: Merus Audio ApS
- Current Assignee: Merus Audio ApS
- Current Assignee Address: DK Herlev
- Agency: Nixon Peabody LLP
- Priority: EP13183749 20130910
- International Application: PCT/EP2014/068521 WO 20140901
- International Announcement: WO2015/036272 WO 20150319
- Main IPC: H03F99/00
- IPC: H03F99/00 ; H03K7/08 ; H03F3/217 ; H03F3/183 ; H03K4/08 ; H04R3/00 ; H02M3/158

Abstract:
A multiphase pulse width modulator (PWM) producing N mutually phase shifted PWM signals, which is well-suited for class D audio amplifier applications. The multiphase PWM includes (a) N+1 (N ≧2) analog triangular waveform generators producing N+1 mutually phase shifted triangular waveforms, and (b) N+1 comparators each having a first input coupled to each of the N+1 triangular waveforms and a second input coupled to an audio signal to generate N+1 mutually phase shifted PWM phase signals. A crosspoint switch includes N+1 inputs coupled to the N+1 PWM phase signals, and N outputs to supply the N PWM signals. A crosspoint switch controller selectively connects each of the N+1 inputs to each of the N outputs for a duration of a cycle time in a time sequence to simultaneously generate the N PWM signals such that each signal has interleaved time segments of the N+1 PWM phase signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160218703A1 A MULTIPHASE PULSE WIDTH MODULATOR FOR CLASS D AUDIO AMPLIFIERS Public/Granted day:2016-07-28
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