WM8737L

Preliminary Technical Data

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AI Rev 3.0 May 2004

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Hold time is the time delay between the peak level detected being below target and the PGA gain

beginning to ramp up. It can be programmed in power-of-two (2

10.67ms etc. up to 43.7ms. Alternatively, the hold time can also be set to zero. The hold time only

applies to gain ramp-up, there is no delay before ramping the gain down when the signal level is

above target.

Decay time (Gain Ramp-Up) is the time that it takes for the PGA gain to ramp up across 90% of its

range (e.g. from –15dB up to 25.5 dB). The time it takes for the recording level to return to its target

value therefore depends on both the decay time and on the gain adjustment required. If the gain

adjustment is small, it will be shorter than the decay time. The decay time can be programmed in

power-of-two (2

Attack time (Gain Ramp-Down) is the time that it takes for the PGA gain to ramp down across 90%

of its range (e.g. from 25.5dB down to -15dB gain). The time it takes for the recording level to return

to its target value therefore depends on both the attack time and on the gain adjustment required. If

the gain adjustment is small, it will be shorter than the attack time. The attack time can be

programmed in power-of-two (2

When operating in stereo, the peak detector takes the maximum of left and right channel peak

values, and any new gain setting is applied to both left and right PGAs, so that the stereo image is

preserved. However, the ALC function can also be enabled on one channel only. In this case, only

one PGA is controlled by the ALC mechanism, while the other channel runs independently with its

PGA gain set through the control register.

When one ADC channel is unused or used for dc measurement, the peak detector disregards that

channel. The ALC function can operate in digital mono mix mode (MONOMIX = 10), but not in

analogue mono mix mode (MONOMIX = 01).