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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: TAS5026 and TAS5110
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 January 2003
Digital amps speed home theatre to
market
Samsung has designed TI's highly efficient digital audio amplifier technology into its new DVD receiver combo product.
Samsung has designed TI's highly efficient digital audio amplifier technology into its new DVD receiver combo product TI's high efficiency digital amplifiers enable the unique combination of high-quality audio amplification and AM/FM tuner with the traditional DVD combo features - DVD and VCR functionality - to provide consumers with a true home theatre-in-a-box, complete with speakers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Samsung was working within a 90-day window to complete the working prototype and because of TI's highly experienced applications support, it was able to complete the prototype on schedule and under its amplifier cost target.
Samsung's new combo unit drives 50W into the surround speakers and 100W into the subwoofer, enhancing the home listening experience.
TI's highly efficient TAS5026 and TAS5110 digital audio amplifiers are 10 times more efficient than analogue amplifiers, enabling manufacturers to build much smaller profile designs and greatly increase the functions and features.
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The efficiency of TI's digital audio amplifiers enabled Samsung to quickly incorporate the functionality usually found in three separate components into one unit without sacrificing on size or price.
In addition, just three months later, Samsung transformed this slender DVD combo from simply an idea to a working product, leveraging TI's customer support and overall semiconductor system integration.
"The DVD receiver combo packs the performance of several products into one with the first truly digital audio amplifier", said JA Kim, principal engineer for Samsung.
"TI's design team support is amazing.
TI helped us quickly turn our marketing ideas into reality, by incorporating incredible sound and features into this product".
"Samsung's DVD combo, leveraging TI's advanced digital audio technology, provides maximum performance for a minimum price", said Katsuhiko Iida of Lpro System, a Japanese audio consulting firm.
"As the first reviewer of this product, I think Samsung's home theatre-in-a-box is far superior in sound quality to anything on the consumer electronics market".
Katsuhiko Iida has over 30 years of experience as an audio tuning specialist.
TI's six-channel TAS5026 PWM processor is a multichannel digital amplifier targeted specifically at reducing the implementation costs in multi-channel systems.
Combined with TI's power stages, this solution offers a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 96dB for DVD receivers and DVD mini-component systems.
TI's TAS5110 power stage provides a 50W integrated, single-chip solution targeted at DVD receivers and other high quality home theatre applications.
With efficiencies greater than 90%, the TAS5110 provides an excellent low thermal dissipation solution for systems that require both high audio performance and space constraints.
The Samsung DVD combo is currently shipping in select regions and will begin shipping worldwide in Q1 2003.
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