Electronic – Triangular wave generator

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As part of a college project I have to design a working Class-D audio amplifier.

One of the first challenges is to generate a triangular wave at a frequency arround 100kHz.

In order to do this I have in mind generating first a square wave (using a 555 timer in an astable configuration) and then integrate it. Then I encounter some problems:

  1. The device has to be single powered (5V taken from a USB plug)
  2. Becouse of that limitation I cannot use a simple Inverter Integration using an operational amplifier.

Any ideas on how to solve my problem?

Thanks in advance, and sorry for my bad english :/

Best Answer

A class-D audio amplifier does not necessarily need a triangular wave generator, a good alternative could be a self-oscillating class-D amplifier (-> Google).

In case you have to use a carrier-based class-D you could use the following configuration for the carrier generation (link)

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A 100kHz carrier frequency might be a little bit too low, I suggest to increase it to 200 or even 300kHz.