TDA7375A

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Figure 24.

5.6.1 Diagnostics Facility

The TDA7375A is equipped with a diagnostic circuitry able to detect the following events:

– short to GND

– soft short at turn on

The information is available across an open collector output (pin 10) through a current sinking when the

event is detected A current sinking at pin 10 is triggered when a certain distortion level is reached at any

of the outputs. This function allows gain compression possibility whenever the amplifier is overdriven.

5.6.2 Thermal Shutdown

In this case the output 10 will signal the proximity of the junction temperature to the shutdown threshold.

Typically current sinking at pin 10 will start ~10°C before the shutdown threshold is reached.

Figure 25. Clipping Detection Waveforms