Test and application information, Test conditions, Voltage gain – Philips TDA7056AT User Manual
Page 11: Output power, Switch-on/switch-off, Thermal behaviour, Short-circuit protection
 
1998 Feb 23
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NXP Semiconductors
Product specification
3 W mono BTL audio amplifier with DC 
volume control
TDA7056AT
TEST AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
Test conditions
T
amb
= 25
°C if not specified: V
P
= 12 V; V
DC
= 1.4 V;
f = 1 kHz; R
L
= 16
Ω; audio bandpass: 22 Hz to 22 kHz.
In Figures 5 and 6 a low-pass filter of 80 kHz was applied. 
It should be noted that capacitive loads (100 pF and 5 nF) 
connected between the output pins to a common ground 
can cause oscillations. The BTL application circuit diagram 
is shown in Fig.14. To avoid instabilities and too high 
distortion, the input and power ground traces must be 
separated as far as possible and connected together as 
close as possible to the IC. The quiescent current has 
been measured without load impedance.
Voltage gain
The maximum closed-loop voltage gain has been 
internally fixed at 35.5 dB. The input sensitivity at 
maximum gain for P
o
= 3 W (R
L
= 16
Ω) is 115 mV.
The gain bandwidth is 20 Hz to 300 kHz within 1 dB.
Output power
The output power as a function of supply voltage has been 
measured at THD = 10%. The maximum output power is 
limited by the maximum allowed power dissipation at 
T
amb
= 25
°C approximately 2 W, and the maximum
available output current is 1.25 A repetitive peak current.
Switch-on/switch-off
The switch-on behaviour depends on the following:
• The rise time of the power supply (if t
r
> 40 ms for
V
P
= 0 to 12 V then the switch-on behaviour will be
good)
• The input capacitor and source impedance (a higher
source impedance and/or lower input capacitor value 
will have a positive influence on the switch-on/switch-off 
behaviour)
• The DC volume control pin (a capacitor of >0.1 μF
avoids disturbances).
Thermal behaviour:
The measured thermal resistance of the IC package is 
highly dependent on the configuration and size of the 
application board. Data may not be comparable between 
different semiconductors manufacturers because the 
application boards and test methods are not (yet) 
standardized. The thermal performance of packages for a 
specific application may also be different than presented 
here, because the configuration of the application boards 
(copper area) may be different. NXP Semiconductors uses 
FR-4 type application boards with 1 oz copper traces with 
solder coating. The measurements have been carried out 
with vertical placed boards.
Using a practical PCB layout with wider copper tracks and 
some copper area to the IC pins and just under the IC, the 
thermal resistance from junction to ambient can be 
reduced. In the demonstration application PCB the 
R
th(j-a)
= 56 K/W for the SO20 plastic package. For a
maximum ambient temperature of T
amb
= 50
°C the
following calculation can be made for the maximum power
dissipation:
For the application at V
P
= 12 V and R
L
= 16
Ω the worst
case sine wave dissipation is 1.85 W. Because in practice 
the ‘music-power’ causes about the half of the sine wave 
dissipation, this application (V
P
= 12 V; R
L
= 16
Ω) has
been allowed.
Short-circuit protection:
The output pins (pins 14 and 17) can be short-circuited to 
ground respectively to +V
P
. The Missing Current Limiter
(MCL) protection circuit will shut-off the amplifier. 
Removing the short-circuit will reset the amplifier 
automatically. Short-circuit across the load 
(pins 14 and 17) will activate the thermal protection circuit; 
this will result in reducing the short-circuit current.
150 K/W
50 K/W
–
(
)
56 K/W
-----------------------------------------------------
1.79 W
=