Common sources of Pop Click artifacts and solutions for PC Audio systems

This presentation describes the common sources of pop and click artifacts in PC audio systems " presents solutions for minimizing these artifacts, and details the architecture advances that have been made in the IDT high definition audio (HDA) codec product line to improve pop and click performance. Pops and clicks are audible, undesirable noise artifacts that occur when an unintended analog signal is passed through to an audio output device, i.e. headphones, speakers, etc.