No way to use ADAU1701 Class-D amplifier

Hello,

The UG-072 document describes the ADAU1401ABEZ evaluation board, a 6" x 6" board with many setup options / jumpers yet with no Class-D amplifier. Its four DAC outputs have active op-amp filters with 600 ohm output impedance -- these outputs can drive an external amplifier but you'll get little or no sound with headphones. The much smaller ADAU1701MINIZ board does include an on-board SSM2306 2-watt Class-D amplifier wired to DACs 0,1. Its speaker outputs are available at the green terminal board. DACs 2,3 output to a headphone jack with sufficiently low impedance to drive sensitive headphones or an external amplifier.

Examining your screenshot, I cannot see what signal you have feeding the VCO. I'd suggest testing with a straight sine oscillator instead -- one less thing to go wrong. If your ADAU1401ABEZ board is new out of the box its switches and jumpers should already be set to get output from the DACs -- but if not, carefully go over the settings shown on page 3 of document UG-072.

If you're actually using the ADAU1701MINIZ board and cannot get output from its Class-D amplifier via the two speaker outputs on its green terminal board -- the SSM2306 is off by default, you need to enable it. To do this, first go to Hardware Configuration / 170x/140x Register Control and set MP7 to Output GPIO:

Then add a nonzero DC source feeding GPIO output 7, as shown below:

Best regards,

Bob

Hello oceam2,

You have to dig a little on our web site to find this but here is the user guide for the MiniZ

https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/evaluation-documentation/EVAL-ADAU1701MINIZ.pdf

Dave T