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Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2013
Applicant:

Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhengyu Wang, Irvine, CA (US);

Iuri Mehr, Irvine, CA (US);

Jungwoo Song, Irvine, CA (US);

Xicheng Jiang, Irvine, CA (US);

Assignee:

Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/217 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/2175 (2013.01); H03F 3/217 (2013.01); H03F 2200/351 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting and suppressing analog error in an output stage of a digital class-D amplifier are described. In embodiments, the digital class-D amplifier includes a PWM stage, an output stage, and a feedback circuit. The PWM stage receives the signal difference between an input digital signal and a feedback digital signal, generates a digital pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal based thereon, and provides the digital PWM signal as a first component of the digital feedback signal. The output stage receives the digital PWM signal and generates an analog output signal for driving a load responsive to the digital PWM signal. The feedback circuit combines an analog representation of the PWM signal and the analog output signal to generate a second component of the digital feedback signal.


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