Philips Semiconductors
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TDA1562Q application note
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© Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. 2004. All rights reserved.
Application note
Rev. 01.02 — 05 May 2006
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The TDA1562 has a load detection circuit on board that was intentionally designed for
‘normal’ loudspeakers with an inductance <0.5mH, like full range speakers uptill woofers
to about 20cm in diameter.
But nowadays larger speakers are used by car manufacturers to give an even better
bass reponse in the car. These speakers are called subwoofers. Some even have a
double voice coil of which the coils are mounted in series. One can imagine that the
inductance of these configurations can become quite high, from 1mH to several milli
Henry’s.
If these kind of subwoofers are connected to the TDA1562, one should use an extra
external circuit to get a proper load detection at the DIAG pin.
This external circuit creates a short time correction between the outputs of the amplifier
during enabling of the mode pin, so when the amplifier is starting-up.
It is only active for a very short time so no negative side effects occur during normal
usage.
Fig 46. Internal blockdiagram and external load detection schematic
Internal circuit
The internal circuit works as follows:
After the TDA1562 is switched from standby to mute or on, the mode pin can be switched
to mute to see if a load is present on the outputs.
R17
35
C6
330nF
Q4
NPN
R19
10k
R18
10k
C5
470nF
+
-
1.4V
2.8V
output
stage
enable
SR
FlipFlop
mute
enable
out+
out-
Vp
Diag
VREF CAPACITOR1
10uF
Vref
14
-
+
TDA1562
9/10
11
8
7
mode
4
to 5V micro
load detection circuit
comparators