Digital Pulse Width Modulator

ISBN-13: 9783639178760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 96 str.

Huiyun Li

Opis

We describe the design of a micropower digitalpulsewidth modulator (PWM) for a hearing instrument Class D amplifier. The PWM embodies a novel delta-compensation sampling process and a novel pulse generator.The delta-compensation sampling process issampled at the same low rate as reported algorithmic sampling processes and it features a similar low total harmonic distortion (THD). Its arithmetic computation is however, substantially simplified.We analytically derive the double Fourier series expression and show that the THD is low.The pulsegenerator is based on a hybrid 9-b counter 3-b tapped-delay-line. We investigate the compromise between the different design parameters that affect its power dissipation and THD. The complete proposed PWM features a simple circuit implementation, micropower low voltage operation, low sampling rate and low harmonic distortion, thereby rendering it suitable for a practical digital hearing instrument.

O autorze

Huiyun Li received the Ph.D degree from University of Cambridge
in 2006. She is now with Shenzhen Institute of Advanced
Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Gwee Bah Hwee received the MEng and PhD degrees from Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore in 1992 and 1998. He is with
Nanyang Technological University since 1999.