Background technology
Along with the increased popularity of portable consumer electronic product, also more and more higher at present to the requirement of battery working time.Little with efficient height, distortion is that the D class A amplifier A of characteristics begins to be widely used in the middle of these products.For the low-power audio product,, use the D class A amplifier A can prolong the useful life of battery as mobile phone, MP3, MP4 etc.; For the high-power audio product, as multimedia loudspeaker box, power amplifier etc., use the D class A amplifier A can save fin and the transformer that uses small dimension, in energy-conserving and environment-protective, reduce the overall cost of product.Different with traditional class ab ammplifier is, the D class A amplifier A utilize voltage ratio, technology such as pulse-width modulation amplifies audio signal, so the D class A amplifier A is also referred to as digital power amplifier.
Modern D class A amplifier A uses multiple modulator topological structure, and the most basic topology has made up PWM (Pulse Width Modulation, pulse width modulation) and triangular wave (or sawtooth waveforms) oscillator.Fig. 1 is based on the semibridge system D class A amplifier A simplified block diagram of PWM in the prior art.It comprises a pulse-width modulator PMW, two output mos FET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor FieldEffect Transistor, mos field effect transistor) and an outside low pass filter (L who is used to the audio signal recovering to be exaggerated
FAnd C
F).Wherein, p raceway groove and n channel mosfet alternately are connected to VDD and ground as the conduct current switch with its output node.Because output transistor switches output between VDD or ground, so the final output of D class A amplifier A is a high frequency square wave.Switching frequency (the f of most of D class A amplifier As
SW) usually between 250kHz to 1.5MHz.Audio input signal carries out pulse-width modulation to the output square wave.The triangular wave (or sawtooth waveforms) that audio input signal and internal oscillator produce compares, and can obtain pwm signal.This modulation system is commonly referred to as the nature sampling, and wherein triangular wave oscillator is as sampling clock.The duty ratio of square wave is directly proportional with incoming signal level.When not having input signal, the duty ratio of output waveform is 50%.
In order from the PWM waveform, to extract the audio signal after the amplification, need the output of amplifier is connected to a low pass filter.LC low pass filter among Fig. 1 is as passive integrator, and its output equals the mean value of square wave.In addition, low pass filter can prevent dissipation HF switch energy on resistive load.
The inventor finds that there is following problem at least in prior art in realizing process of the present invention:
Need outside LC filter in the realization of this power amplifier.This has not only increased scheme total cost and circuit board space, also may be because of the non-linear additional distortion of introducing of filter element.
Summary of the invention
Embodiments of the invention provide a kind of power amplifier and signal processing method thereof, are used to reduce the cost of power amplifier, improve the performance of power amplifier.
Embodiments of the invention provide a kind of power amplifier, comprising: second-order filter circuit, modulation circuit and output circuit, and the output of described second-order filter circuit is connected with the input of described modulation circuit; The output of described modulation circuit is connected with the input of described output circuit; The output of described output circuit is connected with the input of every rank filter circuit in the described second-order filter circuit respectively.
Embodiments of the invention also provide the signal processing method in a kind of power amplifier, are applied to comprise in the power amplifier of second-order filter circuit, modulation circuit and output circuit, comprising:
Described second-order filter circuit sends to described modulation circuit with output signal;
Described output circuit is modulated and outputed to described modulation circuit to described signal;
The signal of described output circuit after according to described modulation exported, and output signal fed back to the input of every rank filter circuit in the described second-order filter circuit respectively.
Compared with prior art, embodiments of the invention have the following advantages:
The embodiment of the application of the invention, adopt two feedback second-order filter circuits, signal is carried out de-noising by second-order filter circuit, signal is modulated by modulation circuit after exported by output circuit then, can utilize two feedback second-order filter circuits to reduce the harmonic distortion and the noise of modulation circuit and output circuit generation effectively, improve the performance of power amplifier, reduced the cost of power amplifier.
Embodiment
Embodiments of the invention provide a kind of power amplifier, as shown in Figure 2, are made up of second-order filter circuit 10, modulation circuit 20 and output circuit 30.The output of second-order filter circuit 10 is connected with the input of modulation circuit 20; The output of modulation circuit 20 is connected with the input of output circuit 30; The output of output circuit 30 is connected with the input of every rank filter circuit in the second-order filter circuit 10 respectively.This power amplifier can be the D power-like amplifier.
Wherein second-order filter circuit 10 outputs to signal modulation circuit 20; Modulation circuit 20 is generally the PWM modulation circuit, relatively produces output signal by input signal and triangular wave or sawtooth waveforms (being produced by RAMP), and output signal can be pwm signal.The pwm signal that modulation circuit 20 produces outputs to the driving stage of output circuit 30, and pwm signal produces output by output circuit 30.The output signal of output circuit 30 feeds back to the input of every rank filter circuit in the second-order filter circuit 10 simultaneously, forms a closed-loop system, makes power amplifier that good robustness be arranged.
In addition, second-order filter circuit 10 is made up of first integrator 11 and second integral device 12, the anti-phase respectively difference input that is connected to second integral device 12 of the difference output of first integrator 11.The output signal of output circuit 30 feeds back to the first integrator 11 in the second-order filter circuit 10 and the input of second integral device 12 respectively.Stable for the guaranteed output amplifier in addition, the slope that the SR (Slew Rate, switching rate) that each integrator in the second-order filter circuit 10 can be set produces less than triangular wave or sawtooth waveforms.
Because the driving stage of modulation circuit 20 and output circuit 30 is easy to generate harmonic distortion and noise, can carry out noise shaping to the noise of this part by two second-order filter circuits 10 that feed back to, realize high performance circuit.
As shown in Figure 2, first integrator 11 and second integral device 12 are formed a second-order low-pass filter, and transfer function is:
Wherein, K is the gain from the PWM modulator.When K=1, following formula becomes:
By changing R
1Value, can change the gain and the transfer function of power amplifier, realize that volume regulates.
Carry out behavioral scaling emulation for above-mentioned power amplifier shown in Figure 2, condition is the V of input signal
In=1.5V, f=1kHz, simulation result such as Fig. 3, Fig. 4 and shown in Figure 5.Wherein, Fig. 3 is AC (Alternating Current, the alternating current) characteristic of power amplifier, and as shown in Figure 3, the resistance and the electric capacity that change in the power amplifier are little to the overall performance influence, show this power amplifier stalwartness.Fig. 4 is the PWM modulation output of adopting the embodiment of the invention, and Fig. 5 is that the circuit simulation result of power amplifier exports VOUT under the condition of above-mentioned input signal.Shown in Fig. 6 A and 6B, adopting output DFT (Distortion-Free Technology, it the is true to disappear) test result of the embodiment of the invention is 120dB, and this D power-like amplifier that shows that the embodiment of the invention discloses is simple in structure, performance is higher.
Embodiments of the invention also provide the signal processing method in a kind of power amplifier, are applied to comprise in the power amplifier of second-order filter circuit, modulation circuit and output circuit, as shown in Figure 7, comprising:
Step s701, second-order filter circuit send to described modulation circuit with output signal;
Described output circuit is modulated and outputed to step s702, modulation circuit to described signal;
Step s703, the output circuit signal after according to described modulation is exported, and output signal is fed back to the input of every rank filter circuit in the described second-order filter circuit respectively.
Wherein, when described second-order filter circuit specifically comprises first integrator and second integral device, the anti-phase respectively difference input that is connected to described second integral device of the difference of described first integrator output;
The step that the power output of described output circuit feeds back to the input of every grade of integrator circuit in the described second-order filter circuit specifically comprises: the power output of described output circuit feeds back to the input of described first integrator and described second integral device.
Wherein, described modulation circuit is the pulse width modulation (PWM) modulation circuit, and the signal that described PWM modulation circuit produces is a pwm signal.The step that described PWM modulation circuit produces pwm signal specifically comprises: input signal and the triangular wave or the sawtooth signal of the more described second-order filter circuit of described PWM modulation circuit produce pwm signal.
Wherein, the slope that the switching rate of each integrator produces less than described triangular wave or sawtooth waveforms in the described second-order filter circuit.
Wherein, this power amplifier can be the D power-like amplifier.
Embodiments of the invention adopt two feedback second-order filter circuits, signal is carried out de-noising by second-order filter circuit, signal is modulated by modulation circuit after exported by output circuit then, can utilize two feedback second-order filter circuits to reduce the harmonic distortion and the noise of modulation circuit and output circuit generation effectively, improve the performance of power amplifier, reduced the cost of power amplifier.In addition, grid utilize the inductance of external loudspeaker coil self and the natural filter action of loud speaker and people's ear to recover audio frequency component from square wave output after driving output-stage circuit output again, have saved output filter.Embodiments of the invention adopt two reponse systems and second-order filter circuit can solve the bigger problem of harmonic distortion of prior art, less demanding to back level comparator and design of drive circuit, realize than being easier to, and circuit structure is simple, can obtain low distortion, low-power consumption, chip area is little and good stability, be greatly improved on the performance, significantly reduced the power amplifier cost, thereby a scheme littler, more cheap, that efficient is higher is provided.
More than disclosed only be several specific embodiment of the present invention, still, the present invention is not limited thereto, any those skilled in the art can think variation all should fall into protection scope of the present invention.