Abstract:
A radio frequency transmitter (400) including at least one digital signal processing module (410, 710) is described. The at least one digital signal processing module (410, 710) is arranged to receive a complex digital input signal, successively apply pre-distortion to the received complex digital input signal with a progressively finer granularity, simultaneously progressively increase a sampling rate of the received complex digital input signal, and output a first, in-phase digital control word and a second, quadrature, digital control word for controlling at least one digital power amplifier component (230) to generate a radio frequency signal representative of the received complex digital input signal.
Abstract:
A radio frequency transmitter (400) including at least one digital signal processing module (410, 710) is described. The at least one digital signal processing module (410, 710) is arranged to receive a complex digital input signal, successively apply pre-distortion to the received complex digital input signal with a progressively finer granularity, simultaneously progressively increase a sampling rate of the received complex digital input signal, and output a first, in-phase digital control word and a second, quadrature, digital control word for controlling at least one digital power amplifier component (230) to generate a radio frequency signal representative of the received complex digital input signal.
Abstract:
A radio frequency (RF) transmitter (200, 400) has at least one digital signal processing module (210, 410) and at least one power amplifier module (230). The digital signal processing module (210, 410) includes at least one digital pre-distortion component (250) arranged to receive at least one complex input signal, perform two-dimensional non-uniform mapping of the complex input signal to a first, in-phase, digital pre-distortion control word and a further, quadrature, digital pre-distortion control word, and output the in-phase and quadrature pre-distortion digital control words. The power amplifier module (230) includes a first, in-phase, array of switch-mode power cells (510) and at least one further, quadrature, array of switch-mode power cells (520). The two-dimensional non-uniform mapping has a pre-distortion profile (350) at least partly based on an input/output relationship for the power amplifier module (230) arranged to generate an analogue RF signal based at least partly on the in-phase and quadrature digital pre-distortion control words.
Abstract:
A radio frequency (RF) transmitter architecture (200) includes at least one digital signal processing module (210). The at least one digital signal processing module (210) is configurable to operate in at least a first mode wherein the at least one digital signal processing module is arranged to receive a digital input signal, select, from a reduced set of digital power amplifier (DPA) control values, a plurality of DPA control values based at least partly on the received digital input signal, perform interpolation of the plurality of selected DPA control values to determine a DPA control value from a non-reduced set of DPA control values representative of the received digital input signal, and output to at least one DPA component (230) the determined DPA control value representative of the received digital input signal.