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Date of release: 7 April 2000

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Contents

Philips Semiconductors

TDA8941P

1.5 W mono BTL audio amplifier

1

General description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

3

Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

4

Quick reference data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

5

Ordering information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

6

Block diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

7

Pinning information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

7.1

Pinning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

7.2

Pin description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

8

Functional description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

8.1

Input configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

8.2

Power amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

8.2.1

Output power measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

8.2.2

Headroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

8.3

Mode selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

8.3.1

Switch-on and switch-off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

8.4

Supply Voltage Ripple Rejection (SVRR) . . . . . 5

8.5

Built-in protection circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

8.5.1

Short-circuit protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

8.5.2

Thermal shutdown protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

9

Limiting values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

10

Thermal characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

11

Static characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

12

Dynamic characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

13

Internal circuitry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

14

Application information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

14.1

Printed-circuit board (PCB). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

14.1.1

Layout and grounding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

14.1.2

Power supply decoupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

14.2

Thermal behaviour and Tamb(max) calculation . 15

15

Test information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

15.1

Quality information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

15.2

Test conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

16

Package outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

17

Soldering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

17.1

Introduction to soldering through-hole

mount packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

17.2

Soldering by dipping or by solder wave . . . . . 17

17.3

Manual soldering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

17.4

Package related soldering information . . . . . . 17

18

Revision history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

19

Data sheet status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

20

Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

21

Disclaimers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19