1 Features
• AEC-Q100 qualified for automotive applications
– Temperature grade 1: –40°C to +125°C, TA
• General operation
– 4.5V to 19V supply voltage, 40V load dump
– Support for 1.8V and 3.3V I/O’s
– I2C control with 8 address options
– <0.5W idle power loss at 14.4V, <5uA max
PVDD shutdown loss
• Output current sensing via I2S or TDM
– No need for external circuitry
• Real-time load diagnostics
– Monitor output conditions while playing audio
– Open load, Shorted load, Short-to-power,
Short-to-ground detection
• Integrated DSP processing
– Thermal monitoring and foldback
– PVDD monitoring and foldback
– Clip detection
– Low Latency Path, >70% reduced signal delay
at 48kHz
• DC and AC Standby load diagnostics
• Audio inputs
– I2S and TDM support up to TDM16
– Input sample rates: 16, 32, 44.1, 48, 96,
192kHz
• Audio outputs
– 384kHz to 2MHz configurable output switching
frequency
– 15W (14.4V, 4Ω, 10% THD+N)
• Audio Performance
– THD+N <0.02% (4Ω, 1W, 1kHz)
– 105dB SNR
– Output noise: 41μVRMS at 14.4V, A-weighting
• Protection
– Output short protection
– Speaker GuardTM Pro power limiter
– Configurable overtemperature warning and
shutdown
– I2C temperature and supply voltage readout
– DC offset, undervoltage and overvoltage
• Easily meet CISPR25-L5 EMC specification
– Advanced spread-spectrum

2 Applications
• Acoustic vehicle alerting system (AVAS)
• Emergency call (eCall)
• Automotive head unit
• Telematics control unit
• Automotive cluster display

3 Description
The TAS6501-Q1 is a mono-channel, digital-input,
Class-D audio amplifier that supports 2MHz switching
frequency enabling a cost and size-optimized singlechannel
audio amplifier design. The device operates
from 4.5V to 19V and delivers up to 15W (14.4V, 4Ω,
10% THD+N). The device integrates DC and AC load
diagnostics to determine the status of the connected
load before enabling the output stage. Additionally,
the device can monitor the output load condition while
in PLAY mode with or without audio using real-time
load diagnostics which operates independently from
the host and audio input.
TAS6501-Q1 can monitor the output current, PVDD
voltage, and temperature of the device and can
report this data through TDM or I2S. The integrated
DSP of the TAS6501-Q1 enables advanced protection
features such as PVDD foldback, thermal foldback,
and Speaker Guard™ Pro power limiter. The DSP
also enables an additional low-latency signal path,
providing up to 70% faster signal processing at 48kHz
for time-sensitive Active Noise Cancellation (ANC)
and Road Noise Cancellation (RNC) applications.
The device is available in a small pad-down TSSOP
and QFN with wettable flanks packages, enabling a
heatsink-free audio amplifier design.