Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Spatial digital pre-distortion
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Application No.: US15372723Application Date: 2016-12-08
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Publication No.: US10298276B2Publication Date: 2019-05-21
- Inventor: Patrick Pratt , Michael O'Brien
- Applicant: Analog Devices Global
- Applicant Address: BM Hamilton
- Assignee: Analog Devices Global
- Current Assignee: Analog Devices Global
- Current Assignee Address: BM Hamilton
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04B1/04
- IPC: H04B1/04 ; H04B7/06

Abstract:
Power amplifier circuits can behave in a non-linear manner particularly when operated to produce output signal swings approaching an amplifier saturation region. A pre-distortion signal can be applied to a signal to be transmitted to compensate for such power amplifier non-linearity. In applications where two or more transmitter power amplifiers are used, a beam-former can be configured to modify a digitally pre-distorted transmission signal by applying respective beam-forming weighting factors to the digitally pre-distorted transmission signal to provide input transmission signals for respective ones of the power amplifier circuits. The pre-distortion signal can be established at least in part using one or more of a sensed or estimated representation of a transmitted beam formed by spatially aggregating transmitted outputs from the two or more power amplifier circuits. In this manner, power amplifier efficiency can be enhanced without entirely separate pre-distortion compensation for each of the power amplifier circuits.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180167091A1 SPATIAL DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION Public/Granted day:2018-06-14
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