TFA9812_2
NXP B.V. 2009. All rights reserved.
Preliminary data sheet
Rev. 02 — 22 January 2009
8 of 66
NXP Semiconductors
TFA9812
BTL stereo Class-D audio amplier with I2S input
8.
Functional description
8.1 General
The TFA9812 is a high-efciency stereo BTL Class-D amplier with a digital I2S audio
input. It supports all commonly used I2S formats.
Figure 1 shows the functional block diagram, which includes the key function blocks of the
TFA9812. In the digital domain the audio signal is processed and converted to a pulse
width modulated signal using BD modulation. A BTL congured power comparator carries
out power amplication.
The audio signal processing path is as follows:
1. The Digital Audio Input (DAI) block translates the I2S (-like) input signal into a
standard internal stereo audio stream.
2. The 10-band parametric equalizer can optionally equalize the stereo audio stream.
Both channels have separate equalization streams. It can be used for speaker transfer
curve compensation to optimize the audio performance of applied speakers.
3. Volume control in the TFA9812 is done by attenuation. The attenuation depends on
the volume control settings and the thermal foldback value. Soft mute is also arranged
at this part. In Legacy mode the volume control is done by an on-board
Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) which measures the analog voltage on pin 32.
4. The interpolation lter interpolates from 1 fs to the PWM controller sample rate
(2048 fs at 44.1 kHz) by cascading FIR lters.
5. The gain block can boost the signal with 0 dB or +24 dB. Four specic gain settings
are also provided in this block. These specic gain settings are related to maximum
clip levels of < 0.5 %, 10 %, 20 % or 30 % THD at the TFA9812 output. These
maximum clip levels are only valid with the gain boost set to 0 dB and a 0 dBFS input
signal.
6. The power limiter limits the maximum output signal of the TFA9812. The power limiter
settings are 0 dB,
1.5 dB, 3 dB, and 4.5 dB. This function can be used to reduce
the maximum output power delivered to the speakers at a xed supply voltage and
speaker impedance.
7. The PWM controller block transforms the audio signal into a BD-modulated PWM
signal. The BD-modulation provides a high signal-to-noise performance and
eliminates clock jitter noise.
8. Via four differential comparators the PWM signals are amplied by two BTL power
output stages. By default the left audio signal is connected to channel 1 and the right
audio signal to channel 2.
47
MCLK
I/O
Master clock input (I2S slave mode) or output (I2S master
mode)
48
VSS2
P
PCB ground reference
Exposed
die-paddle
-
P
PCB ground reference
Table 3.
Pinning description TFA9812 …continued
Pin
Symbol
Type
Description