Audio amplifier
Smart home solutions by Cypress
Cypress Semiconductor has become part of Infineon Technologies: Its product range is a perfect match. Infineon now offers the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio for linking the real with the digital world – comprising an unparalleled range of hardware, software and security solutions for the connected age.
Strengthening the link between the real and the digital world
Cooler, smaller and lighter amplifiers for great sounding audio products
In addition to creating great sounding products, manufacturers of the latest home audio devices are under pressure to deliver products that are wirelessly connected, portable and adaptive to different use cases and environments. At the same time, audio products are becoming increasingly complex to design. On the one hand, this is due to demand for new functions such as voice command interfaces. On the other, audio products must accommodate cloud-based networks along with an ever-increasing number of end-points, audio channels and audio sources.
As a result, the audio hardware solutions used for audio products must be:
- Smaller and lighter
- More integrated
- Better connected
- Power efficient
- Cost effective
- Easier to use
At Infineon, we manufacture power-efficient class D audio amplifier solutions that maintain best-in-class audio quality, without heating up the surroundings. We believe smaller and lighter is better, and big and bulky is history. This means the amplifier embedded in your product should be heard, but not seen. Our amplifier solutions help you design robust, flexible products that meet the needs of your customers, and the market.
Home audio
Modern home audio products come in many shapes, sizes and configurations but one thing they all have in common is the requirement for great sound in combination with outstanding industrial and acoustic design. In addition to producing exceptional sound quality, MERUS™ amplifiers from Infineon can completely eliminate the need for bulky and expensive LC output filters and heatsinks. This allows design of new innovative and great sounding home audio products in form factors and shapes that were previously unthinkable.
System diagram: 2.1 configuration (2xBTL + 1xPBTL)
System diagram: 4.1 configuration (4xBTL + 1xPBTL)
Portable audio
When designing portable/battery powered audio devices, it is essential to maximize battery playback time, and at the same time, maintain an excellent audio performance. Infineon’s MERUS™ amplifiers provide up to twice as long battery playback time in combination with the best-in-class audio performance and unsurpassed sound quality.
System diagram: 2.1 configuration (2xSE + 1xBTL)
System diagram: 2.1 configuration (2xBTL + 1xPBTL)
Professional audio
Professional audio equipment is all about maximizing output power and power density. Professional audio electronics used to be big, heavy and not very energy-efficient. But with the conception of Infineon's MERUS™ multilevel class D technology and gallium nitride CoolGaN™ e-mode HEMTs, it is now possible to conceive both amplifiers and power supplies units with great audio performance and high efficiency in a very compact space. For engineers developing amplifiers, Infineon offers both monolithic and chip-set solutions with versatile MOSFET combinations for the scaling of output power.
System diagram: touring amplifiers (one channel)
System diagram: active speakers
System diagram: public announcement 70-100 V system
Audio amplifier solutions from Infineon
Providing the products and tools you need to overcome most class D audio design challenges, Infineon offers a unique portfolio of MERUS™ amplifier solutions. Depending on your exact project specifications, choose from our high-performance class D audio amplifier solutions for all power ranges and application requirements, from the smallest fully integrated single-chip solutions to highly scalable driver and discrete MOSFET combinations.
By paring our core competencies and leadership in power semiconductor process technologies with groundbreaking innovation in new audio architectures, such as our new multi-level class D amplifier ICs, we are able to provide solutions that are smaller and lighter, and run cooler. This enables audio product manufacturers to design cost-effective, better sounding audio products.
In addition to amplifier solutions, we also offer ones for battery chargers, switch mode power supplies as well as battery and power management devices, microprocessors and MEMS microphones.
Benefits for you and your customers
Our MERUSTM range of advanced audio amplifier solutions maximizes power efficiency, output power and audio performance while ensuring maximum design freedom and fast time-to-market.
In addition, our products excel in the following areas:
- Reliability: Thanks to enhanced design and production standards, customers can count on our solutions to provide complete system stability and reliability over the entire product lifetime.
- Performance: We empower customers to create heat sink-free and filter-free high performance audio products, with fewer components. This lowers overall system costs and, for wireless applications, enables longer battery playback time.
- Flexibility: Our wide selection of ready-to-use amplifier solutions and reference designs fit most class D audio design targets, allowing you to launch products faster.
Start by exploring our product portfolio. Then reach out to us to take your project to the next level.
Customer experience with Infineon’s MERUS™ class D audio solutions @CES 2019
Get the insights from our customers who had the touch and feel experience with our cutting-edge MERUS™ class D audio solutions at CES 2019! For more information https://www.infineon.com/merus https://www.elevenengineering.com https://www.skaa.com
Infineon MERUS™ class D audio amplifier - How it works
Multilevel MERUS™ class D audio amplifier explained and illustrated by a live tech demo for those who love music. Explore the technology behind the outstanding audio experience! For more information https://www.infineon.com/merus
Infineon’s MERUS™ class D audio solutions @ CES 2019
Get to know our cutting-edge MERUS™ class D audio solutions that were showcased in our executive suite at the Mirage Hotel during 2019 CES week. For more information https://www.infineon.com/merus
Short introduction to Infineon´s class D audio solution
This video introduces you to Infineon’s solutions for Class D audio designs.
Learn about the differences of discrete and integrated solution.
Plug-and-play reference designs are here to speed up your product development process.
Expert talk - CoolGaN™ 400 V in class D audio amplifiers
CoolGaN™ 400 V is tailored for premium HiFi home audio, professional, and aftermarket car audio systems where end-users demand every detail of their high-resolution soundtracks. With CoolGaN™ 400 V as class D output stage audio designers are able to deliver the best listening experience to their prospective audio fans.