LM4873MTEX

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  "title": "LM4873MTEX",
  "brief": "Texas Instruments Audio Amplifiers, HTSSOP-20. Pinout cross-checked by two models against the datasheet, KiCad symbol/footprint/3D.",
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    "mpn": "LM4873MTEX",
    "manufacturer": "Texas Instruments",
    "package": "HTSSOP-20",
    "pin_count": 21,
    "category": "Amplifiers/Comparators",
    "subcategory": "Audio Amplifiers",
    "datasheet": "https://www.ti.com/cn/lit/gpn/lm4873",
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      "lcsc": "C4991506",
      "mouser": "926-LM4873MTEX"
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        "number": "1",
        "name": "SHUTDOWN",
        "type": "input",
        "description": "Applying VDD activates micro-power shutdown (logic threshold typically VDD/2, 0.7 µA typ shutdown current), logic low gives normal operation."
      },
      {
        "number": "2",
        "name": "GND",
        "type": "power_in",
        "description": "Ground pin; all voltages are measured with respect to the GND pins."
      },
      {
        "number": "3",
        "name": "+OUT A",
        "type": "output",
        "description": "Channel A non-inverting bridge output; the speaker load is connected between -OUT A and +OUT A."
      },
      {
        "number": "4",
        "name": "VDD",
        "type": "power_in",
        "description": "Positive supply, 2.0V to 5.5V operating range, bypassed with a local 1.0 µF tantalum capacitor to ground."
      },
      {
        "number": "5",
        "name": "-OUT A",
        "type": "output",
        "description": "Channel A inverting bridge output (Amp1A output); also the headphone drive output in single-ended mode."
      },
      {
        "number": "6",
        "name": "-IN A",
        "type": "input",
        "description": "Channel A inverting input for stereo input 1 (selected when MUX CTRL is low), with Ri and Rf setting the gain."
      },
      {
        "number": "7",
        "name": "GND",
        "type": "power_in",
        "description": "Ground pin; all voltages are measured with respect to the GND pins."
      },
      {
        "number": "8",
        "name": "+IN A",
        "type": "input",
        "description": "Channel A non-inverting input."
      },
      {
        "number": "9",
        "name": "-IN A2",
        "type": "input",
        "description": "Channel A inverting input for stereo input 2, selected when MUX CTRL is high."
      },
      {
        "number": "10",
        "name": "MUX CTRL",
        "type": "input",
        "description": "Selects stereo input 1 when low or stereo input 2 when high (can be tied to HP-IN to switch gain with headphone insertion)."
      },
      {
        "number": "11",
        "name": "-IN B2",
        "type": "input",
        "description": "Channel B inverting input for stereo input 2, selected when MUX CTRL is high."
      },
      {
        "number": "12",
        "name": "NC",
        "type": "unconnected",
        "description": "No connection."
      },
      {
        "number": "13",
        "name": "+IN B",
        "type": "input",
        "description": "Channel B non-inverting input."
      },
      {
        "number": "14",
        "name": "BYPASS",
        "type": "passive",
        "description": "Half-supply bias node; a 1 µF capacitor CB to ground improves PSRR and sets turn-on time and click and pop performance."
      },
      {
        "number": "15",
        "name": "-IN B",
        "type": "input",
        "description": "Channel B inverting input for stereo input 1 (selected when MUX CTRL is low), with Ri and Rf setting the gain."
      },
      {
        "number": "16",
        "name": "-OUT B",
        "type": "output",
        "description": "Channel B inverting bridge output; the speaker load is connected between -OUT B and +OUT B."
      },
      {
        "number": "17",
        "name": "VDD",
        "type": "power_in",
        "description": "Positive supply, 2.0V to 5.5V operating range, bypassed with a local 1.0 µF tantalum capacitor to ground."
      },
      {
        "number": "18",
        "name": "+OUT B",
        "type": "output",
        "description": "Channel B non-inverting bridge output."
      },
      {
        "number": "19",
        "name": "GND",
        "type": "power_in",
        "description": "Ground pin; all voltages are measured with respect to the GND pins."
      },
      {
        "number": "20",
        "name": "HP-IN",
        "type": "input",
        "description": "Headphone control; a voltage between 4V and VDD turns off Amp2A/Amp2B for single-ended headphone mode, 0.8V max keeps bridged mode."
      },
      {
        "number": "21",
        "name": "EP",
        "type": "passive",
        "description": "Exposed pad (from the footprint; not named in the datasheet pin table)."
      }
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        "guards": "pin_guards 0.1: passed",
        "guard_notes": [
          "extractor flagged: The exposed die-attach pad (PowerPAD) has no pin number or name in the pinout figure. The datasheet ; The pin 6 and pin 15 labels in the figure are '-IN A' and '-IN B'. I read them as the input 1 pair (; The pin function types for BYPASS and the output pins are my own classification. The pin 14 descript",
          "exposed pad 21 added from the footprint",
          "vision extraction: provenance cannot be text-verified; needs consensus"
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      "Package": "HTSSOP-20",
      "Category": "Amplifiers/Comparators",
      "Pins": "21"
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  "author": {
    "name": "Ray",
    "email": "[email protected]"
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