Signal modulation circuit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9444488-B1
Application number	US-201615096910-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Apr 12, 2016
Priority date	Apr 17, 2015
Publication date	Sep 13, 2016
Grant date	Sep 13, 2016

Abstract

A signal modulation circuit includes a feedback circuit configured to generate the feedback signal for feeding back a drive signal from a driver circuit to an input signal. The feedback circuit includes at least first and second resistors connected together in series, the second resistor having a higher resistance value than that of the first resistor. One end of the first resistor is connected to a subtracter, and one end of the second resistor is connected to the driver circuit. A first line distance as the line length between one end of the first resistor and the subtracter and a second line distance as the line length between one end of the second resistor and the driver circuit are set shorter than a third line distance as the line length between the other end of the first resistor and the other end of the second resistor.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A signal modulation circuit for delta-sigma modulating and outputting an input signal, comprising:
a subtracter configured to calculate a difference between the input signal and a feedback signal;
an integrator configured to integrate an output from the subtracter;
a quantizer configured to quantize a signal integrated by the integrator;
a driver circuit configured to generate a drive signal for driving a load based on the signal from the quantizer; and
a feedback circuit configured to generate the feedback signal for feeding back the drive signal from the driver circuit to the input signal,
wherein the feedback circuit includes at least first and second resistors connected together in series, the second resistor having a higher resistance value than that of the first resistor,
one end of the first resistor is connected to the subtracter, and one end of the second resistor is connected to the driver circuit,
a first line distance as a line length between the one end of the first resistor and the subtracter and a second line distance as a line length between the one end of the second resistor and the driver circuit are set shorter than a third line distance as a line length between the other end of the first resistor and the other end of the second resistor, and
the feedback signal is generated from the one end of the first resistor, and
further comprising:
a phase inversion circuit configured to invert a phase of the signal integrated by the integrator to output the phase-inverted signal to the quantizer,
wherein the quantizer receives the signal integrated by the integrator and the output signal from the phase inversion circuit to output a signal quantized into three or more values to the driver circuit,
the feedback circuit further includes at least third and fourth resistors connected together in series, the fourth resistor having a higher resistance value than that of the third resistor,
one end of the third resistor is connected to the subtracter, and one end of the fourth resistor is connected to the driver circuit,
a fourth line distance as a line length between the one end of the third resistor and the subtracter and a fifth line distance as a line length between the one end of the fourth resistor and the driver circuit are set shorter than a sixth line distance as a line length between the other end of the third resistor and the other end of the fourth resistor, and
a second feedback signal is generated from the one end of the fourth resistor.

2. The signal modulation circuit according to claim 1 , wherein
the feedback circuit is configured such that the resistance value of the fourth resistor is set equal to or higher than a value obtained by multiplying the resistance value of the third resistor by the gain of the driver circuit.

3. The signal modulation circuit according to claim 1 , wherein
the third resistor of the feedback circuit includes a variable resistor element.

4. The signal modulation circuit according to claim 3 , wherein
the subtracter includes an amplifier with a normal-phase terminal and a reverse-phase terminal, and
the one end of the third resistor is connected to the reverse-phase terminal.

5. The signal modulation circuit according to claim 1 , wherein
no low-pass filter is provided between an output of the driver circuit and an output terminal connected to a speaker.

Assignees

• Onkyo Kk

Inventors

• Kawaguchi Tsuyoshi
• Nakanishi Yoshinori

Classifications

• H03M3/32

  with special provisions or arrangements for power saving, e.g. by allowing a sleep mode, using lower supply voltage for downstream stages, using multiple clock domains, by selectively turning on stages when needed · CPC title

• H03M3/358 Primary

  of non-linear distortion, e.g. instability (avoiding instability by structural design H03M3/44) · CPC title

• H04R3/02

  for preventing acoustic reaction {, i.e. acoustic oscillatory feedback (specially adapted for hearing aids H04R25/453)} · CPC title

• H03M3/422

  having one quantiser only · CPC title

• H04R3/007

  Protection circuits for transducers · CPC title