Clipping Compensation of Noise Shaper for Digital Audio Amplifier

摘要

The Noise Shaper of a full digital amplifier overflows randomly when the Modulation Index of PWM is higher than a certain value. The clipping from the overflow produces an abrupt increase of THD+N that limits MI or the maximum output power. In this paper, we discussed the reason of NS overflow and derived the critical value of MI. We proposed a compensation method for the clipping error and optimized compensation in the audio band. The measurement results show that the proposed method can increase the maximum output power by 6.4% at a 1% THD+N condition. The compensation is more important where the power supply voltage and speaker impedance are difficult to change as that in a car stereo or mobile.