Bridge with two self-osc ClassD amps?

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Attached (I hope) is a simple schematic showing how a bridged UCD-style amp can be constructed using only unipolar power rails.
it should be enough to give an idea of one way to do it.

I would suggest that an IRS20124 would be a better gate driver than the LM5106 as although the LM5106 has a settable dead time, the minimum is 80nsec. (This is ok for my low-quality PA application, and gives me around 0.1% THD at 1kHz (measured using ARTA/STEPS), but the dead time really should be lower than this).

Apologies for the poor quality picture, the website requires that the picture is no more than 1000 pixels wide. It should just be readable I hope.
 

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With the dc blocking of the input capacitors, the differential amplifier bases will self-bias at half the output supply rail.

The two transistors in the diff-amp need to be fairly well matched, as an imbalance will affect the output dc offset across the load.

The 100pF capacitor is part of the components to set the gain/phase characteristics of the NFB network (just the same as in any UCD-based amplifier).
 
In the output filter, theoretically you only need the capacitor across the load as part of the filter. If you do that however, you will get a considerable common-mode output RF noise problem. The 100nF capacitors provide a path to 0V for the common-mode signal. Together all three capacitors form the output filter in conjunction with the two inductors.
 
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