Infineon MERUS KIT40WAMPHATZWTOBO1 Quick Start Manual

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  • Page 1 QUICK START GUIDE MERUS audio amplifier piHAT ZW with moOde audio player Infineon Technologies...
  • Page 2: Product Overview And Features

    Overview The MERUS audio amplifier is a hardware at the top (HAT) 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 along with state-of-the-art power efficiency and HD audio quality.
  • Page 3: System Diagram

    Boost converter 5 V to 20 V MERUS MA12070P Figure 3. Top board view of MERUS audio amplifier piHAT ZW Figure 2. MERUS audio amplifier piHAT ZW system diagram 2019-12-01 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2020. 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 + piHAT. Hold › Do not connect the power supply. Continue with the software setup. 2019-12-01 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2020. 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 flash the downloaded moOde audio image file into the card. 2019-12-01 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2020. All rights reserved.
  • Page 6: Configuration Menu

    › Press on the “m” local menu at the top right corner menu, and then go to “configure”. Figure 9. Press on the “m” logo and then go to “configuration” 2019-12-01 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2020. All rights reserved.
  • Page 7 “Airplay” option and also press “set”. Finally, press “EDIT” under Airplay and configure it for 44.1 KHz and 32-bit playback. Don’t forget to press save! Figure 12: Moode initial configuration: Bluetooth and airplay 2019-12-01 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2020. All rights reserved.
  • Page 8 Go to the configuration menu again and press “Power”. Next, press “RESTART” in order to reboot the Raspberry Pi. It can take up to two minutes to restart. Figure 15. Moode power menu 2019-12-01 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2020. All rights reserved.
  • Page 9 Raspberry host name type “moode.local”. Click “open” and then press “yes”. Then login with “pi” as user and “moodeaudio” as password. Figure 16. Connecting trough SSH in putty 2019-12-01 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2020. All rights reserved.
  • Page 10 Spotify and select your device from the list to play music from the piHAT. Or select “Moode Bluetooth” to play via Bluetooth from the piHAT Figure 20. Selecting Moode as Airplay or Bluetooth device device on Spotify. 2019-12-01 Copyright © Infineon Technologies AG 2020. All rights reserved.

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