SLASFD8 May 2025 TAS5830
PRODUCTION DATA
The Thermal Foldback (TFB), is designed to protect TAS5830 from excessive die temperature increases, in case the device operates beyond the recommended temperature/power limit, or with a weaker thermal system design than recommended. The TFB allows the TAS5830 to play as loud as possible without triggering unexpected thermal shutdown. TAS5830 has four over-temperature warning (OTW) thresholds, each threshold is indicated in I2C register 0x73 bits 0, 1, 2, and 3. An internal Automatic Gain Limiter (AGL) gradually reduces the digital gain when the OTW value increases in temperature from level 1 (lowest OTW temperature) to level 4 (highest OTW temperature). The gain attenuation applied is proportional to OTW level, with lower OTW levels resulting in lower attenuation and higher OTW levels resulting in higher attenuation. When die temperature decreases and the OTW level reduces, the digital signal gain gradually increases until the temperature falls below the OTW level and digital gain is restored to the original level. Both the attenuation gain and adjustable rate are programmable. The TFB gain regulation speed (attack rate and release rate) settings are the same as a regular AGL, which is also configurable with TAS5830 App in PurePathTM Console3.