
ASAHI KASEI 
[AK4346] 
MS0531-E-00 
2006/07 
- 28 - 
Analog Ground 
Digital Ground 
System 
Controller 
BICK 
SDTI1 
3
LRCK 
4
PDN 
5
SMUTE/CSN/CAD0
6
ACKS/CCLK/CSL
7
DFS0/CDT/SDA
8
SDTI2 
9
SDTI3 
10
TST1 
11
DIF1 
12
DEM0/CAD1
13
TDM0/DZF2
29 
AVDD
28 
AVSS
27 
VCOM
26 
LOUT1
25 
ROUT1
24 
P/S
23 
LOUT2
22 
ROUT2
21 
LOUT3
20 
ROUT3
19 
TST3
AK4346 
18 
14
15
17 
16 
DVDD 
DVSS 
TST2
DEM1/I2
MCLK 
DZF1 
30 
2
1
Figure 24. Ground Layout 
AVSS and DVSS must be connected to the same analog ground plane. 
1. Grounding and Power Supply Decoupling 
AVDD and DVDD are usually supplied from the analog supply in the system and it should be separated from system 
digital supply. Alternatively if AVDD and DVDD are supplied separately, the power up sequence is not critical. 
AVSS 
and DVSS of the AK4346 must be connected to the analog ground plane
. System analog ground and digital ground 
should be connected together close to where the supplies are brought onto the printed circuit board. A decoupling 
capacitor, typically a 0.1
μ
F ceramic capacitor for high frequency bypass, should be placed as near to AVDD and DVDD 
as possible.  
2. Analog Outputs 
The analog outputs are single-ended and centered around the VCOM voltage. The output signal range is typically 
2.24Vpp (when AVDD=3.3V). The phase of the analog outputs can be inverted channel independently by the 
INVL/INVR bits. The internal switched-capacitor filter and continuous-time filter attenuate the noise generated by the 
delta-sigma modulator beyond the audio passband. The input data format is 2’s complement. The output voltage is a 
positive full scale for 7FFFFFH (@24-bit) and a negative full scale for 800000H (@24-bit). The ideal output is VCOM 
voltage for 000000H (@24-bit). 
DC offsets on the analog outputs are eliminated by AC coupling since the analog outputs have DC offsets of VCOM + a 
few mV.