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spd
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Help needed to identify ic marked c4x
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January 27, 2020, 04:59:39 pm »
I am trying to repair a bluetooth circuit board, no schematic available, that has an ic with 8 pins (four on two sides) with marking c4x. Could not find anything matching this
on google or smdmark.
Would greatly appreciate any help.
Thankas
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fzabkar
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January 27, 2020, 08:33:56 pm »
Could we see a photo of the PCB?
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January 29, 2020, 01:32:26 am »
You are positive it is 8 pin, and not 10 pin?
There's this in a 10 pin package -
https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/AD7946.pdf
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January 29, 2020, 10:27:24 am »
Thanks fzakbar and latelesley. Here are two photos os the circuit board. I had removed two capacitors seemingly attached to it, as it is getting hot, but they seem OK.
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January 29, 2020, 06:00:33 pm »
It looks like a dual step-down converter, assuming the two larger passives are inductors.
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January 29, 2020, 07:59:19 pm »
https://www.yoycart.com/Product/525832996156/
maybe this will help you.
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January 30, 2020, 07:08:45 pm »
Thanks fzakbar and sxn1. The ic in the link sent by sxn1 is 10 pin but the one on the circuit board is 8 pin. I have another similar circuit board on which the same ic is marked c4y.
I am not sure if this ic need to be replaced as it is getting very hot to touch.
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January 30, 2020, 11:05:33 pm »
Measure the voltages at the inductors on your good PCB. They should be the supply voltages for the other chips on the PCB. I suspect that the IC is getting hot because it is being overloaded by one of the other ICs.
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February 01, 2020, 03:26:09 pm »
fzakbar, thanks unfortunately the other pcb is also not working. If I had been able to identify and perhaps replace the ic, it would have helped. This belongs to a bose soundtouch 30 series III,
for which no circuit diagram is available.
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February 01, 2020, 05:28:39 pm »
I would identify the other ICs and determine whether their Vcc/Vdd pins are connected to either of the two inductors. This will confirm that the C4X/C4Y IC is a switchmode regulator.
I couldn't identify all the other ICs, but here are two of them:
PCM1804:
https://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/sles022
AIC3256:
http://www.ti.com/lit/gpn/tlv320aic3256
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I'm assuming that your device is something like this (but with different pinout):
https://www.maxlinear.com/ds/xrp6668.pdf
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February 03, 2020, 04:49:02 pm »
Thanks for your suggestions, I will try to work on them.
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