Electronic – I’m having trouble trying to design a Class D Amplifier. Does anyone have any tips on where I can start

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I'm aiming to design a 4 NMOS H-Bridge switching configuration.
I understand that I am going to need:

  • two half bridge gate drivers to driver the mosfets
  • a comparator stage to compare the audible and high frequency signal
  • low pass filter stage to filter the high frequencies.

A few design constraints of this amp includes:

  • 5W output
  • 42kHz switching frequency
  • 2kHz audible signal

Best Answer

I would recommend to start with the following two tutorials.

The first tutorial is to understand the big picture, the classification of amplifiers. The second tutorial is to understand the principles, components required, and how to build the real thing.

(1) Amplifier Classes - Electronics Tutorials

(2) How to Build a Class-D Power Amp - Cezar Chirila, All About Circuits, 2018apr29