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Audio amplifier Hat ZW with Volumio
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  • Page 1 QUICK START GUIDE MERUS Audio amplifier Hat ZW with Volumio Infineon Technologies...
  • Page 2: Product Overview And Features

    Audio amplifier is a Hardware at the Top (HAT) audio power amplifier board which brings the Infineon proprietary multilevel technology to Raspberry Pi users and makers. It is intended for loudspeaker building and wireless music streaming with minimum size and consumption, state of the art power efficiency and HD audio quality.
  • Page 3 HAT and Raspberry Pi terminals Boost converter 5V to 20V MERUS MA12070P Figure 3. Top board view of MERUS audio amplifier HAT ZW Figure 2. MERUS Audio amplifier HAT ZW system diagram December 2019 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2019. All rights reserved.
  • Page 4: Hardware Setup

    Secure both boards assembly with 2.5M spacers or nuts. assembly Figure 5. Completed assembly of the Raspberry Pi + HAT. › Hold Do not connect the power supply. Continue with the software setup. December 2019 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2019. All rights reserved.
  • Page 5: Software Setup

    3 – Burn the image to the SD card › Insert your SD card in the windows, linux or macOS host machine and burn the downloaded Volumio image file into the card. December 2019 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2019. All rights reserved.
  • Page 6 Volumio GUI to finish your configuration. This menu will appear automatically the first time you boot the Raspberry Pi. Figure 9. Volumio initial configuration December 2019 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2019. All rights reserved.
  • Page 7: Configure The Network

    Continue to the network setting and select the network you want to connect the Raspberry Pi to. Optionally configure the music and finish the initial configuration. Figure 12. Volumio initial configuration: Network December 2019 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2019. All rights reserved.
  • Page 8: Playback Options

    In the Audio resampling section turn on the audio resampling option. Select “24” as target bit depth, “native” as target sample rate. Press save. Figure 15. Volumio settings menu: Audio resampling December 2019 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2019. All rights reserved.
  • Page 9: Enable Ssh

    Raspberry Pi with the Raspberry Pi address in the host name address. Click “open” and then “yes”. Then login with “volumio” as user and “volumio” as password. Figure 17. Connecting trough SSH in putty December 2019 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2019. All rights reserved.
  • Page 10 Turn off the Raspberry Pi by disconnecting the power supply. Connect the loudspeakers to the terminal blocks and turn on the Raspberry Pi again. Figure 19. MERUS HAT terminal blocks for loudspeaker connection December 2019 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2019. All rights reserved.
  • Page 11 Open any Airplay compatible device/app such as Spotify and select your device from the list to play music from the HAT. Figure 21. Selecting Volumio device on Spotify with Airplay. December 2019 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2019. All rights reserved.

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