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New trends toward high-efficiency portable power and audio

Power savings, space, and cost drive next-generation designs  >>  

Differentiating digital potentiometer features

Fully understanding and using features can improve system performance and simplify designs.  >>  

Hardware Accelerators Boost the Performance of Next-Generation SHARC Processors

The recently announced Analog Devices SHARC ADSP-2146x processor incorporates hardware accelerators for implementing three widely used signal processing operations  >>  

Design Considerations for a New Generation Mid-voltage Power MOSFET Technology

In this paper, the development of a new generation mid-voltage MOSFET technology covering multiple emerging applications is described. The basic methodology is based on advanced loss modeling of...  >>  

A New Perspective on Decimation and Interpolation Filters

A New Perspective on Decimation and Interpolation Filters. Steve Green Technical Marketing Manager, Mixed-Signal Products, Cirrus Logic, Inc. it is the removal of the digital decimation and...  >>  

Maxim: Application notes for Audio Circuits

Some of the Application Notes are : 1. Minimizing RF Susceptibility in Cell-Phone Headphone Amplifiers. 2. ALC Improves Sound Quality While Protecting Speakers 3. Reduce EMC in Class-D Amplifiers...  >>  

National's Overture Series for High Power Solutions

National Semiconductor has a broad portfolio of monolithic power integrated circuits covering power levels from a few hundred milliwatts up to 60W of non-clipped continuous average power. These ICs...  >>  

Specifying the Jitter Performance of Audio Components

This paper reviews various ways of characterizing and quantifying jitter, and refines several of them for audio purposes. It also attempts to present a common, unambiguous terminology. The focus...  >>  

Low-Power, Low-Overhead, High-Fidelity Digital Sound for SOCs:

Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio Engine was carefully crafted to meet the requirements for the broadest possible range of consumer products. The HiFi 2 Audio Engine is available as an audio-extension...  >>  

Class D Audio Amplifier Basics

A Class D audio amplifier is basically a switching amplifier or PWM amplifier. There are a number of different classes of amplifiers. This application note takes a look at the definitions for the...  >>  

Breakthrough Amplifier Technology Addresses Large Growing Markets

High performance, high power efficiency, small size and low system cost, Differentiated technology (Class T®) combines the benefits of digital amplification with the audio quality of the best...  >>