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Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 25, 2020
Applicant:

Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd., Edinburgh, GB;

Inventors:

Zhaohui He, Austin, TX (US);

Ruoxin Jiang, Austin, TX (US);

Rahul Singh, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Cirrus Logic, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/21 (2006.01); H03F 3/217 (2006.01); H03F 3/45 (2006.01); H03F 3/187 (2006.01); H03F 1/02 (2006.01); H03F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/2171 (2013.01); H03F 1/0205 (2013.01); H03F 1/0211 (2013.01); H03F 1/3205 (2013.01); H03F 1/3211 (2013.01); H03F 3/187 (2013.01); H03F 3/2173 (2013.01); H03F 3/45215 (2013.01); H03F 3/45475 (2013.01); H03F 3/45672 (2013.01); H03F 2200/03 (2013.01); H03F 2200/129 (2013.01); H03F 2200/135 (2013.01); H03F 2200/264 (2013.01); H03F 2200/267 (2013.01); H03F 2200/351 (2013.01); H03F 2200/462 (2013.01); H03F 2200/471 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45116 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45512 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45528 (2013.01);
Abstract

A Class-D amplifier includes a plurality of power rails, a quantizer, and a driver stage. The quantizer and the driver stage have a combined gain. For each power rail of the plurality of power rails, the Class-D amplifier senses a voltage value for the power rail and determines a ramp amplitude based on the sensed voltage value. The Class-D amplifier concurrently switches from the driver stage using a first power rail to a second power rail of the plurality of power rails and switches from the quantizer using the ramp amplitude associated with the first power rail to using the ramp amplitude associated with the second power rail so that the combined gain is constant.


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