Abstract:
An apparatus for optimizing the bias setting of a RF predistortion linearizer for a power amplifier to operate across different frequency channels is provided. The apparatus may include a radio frequency power amplifier. The apparatus may include a radio frequency predistortion linearizer that predistorts a radio frequency signal and passes the predistorted radio frequency signal to the radio frequency power amplifier for amplification. The radio frequency predistortion linearizer may be configured based on a set of bias control settings for different operating frequencies. The apparatus may include a filtering and detection component configured to monitor performance of the radio frequency power amplifier and fine-tune the set of bias control settings based on the monitored performance of the radio frequency power amplifier.
Abstract:
A power amplifier system including a composite digital predistorter (DPD) ensuring optimized linearity for the power amplifier is described. In this system, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), an analog filter, a first mixer, and the power amplifier are serially coupled to the composite DPD. A second mixer, a receive gain block, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are serially coupled to the output of the power amplifier. A DPD training component is coupled between the inputs of the composite DPD and the ADC. The composite DPD includes a memory-based DPD, e.g., a memory polynomial (MP) DPD, a memoryless-linearizing DPD, e.g., a look-up table (LUT) DPD, and two multiplexers.
Abstract:
A method and system for pre-distorting a dual band signal to compensate for distortion of a non-linear power amplifier in a radio transmitter are disclosed. In one embodiment, the first signal of the dual band signal is tuned to a first intermediate frequency to produce a first tuned signal and the second signal of the dual band signal is tuned to minus the intermediate frequency to produce a second tuned signal. A single input pre-distorter pre-distorts the sum of the first tuned signal and the second tuned signal. The coefficients of the pre-distorter are obtained from a one- dimensional look-up table.
Abstract:
An input signal is pre-distorted to reduce distortion resulting from subsequent signal amplification. Frequency-dependent pre-distortion is preferably implemented in combination with frequency-independent pre-distortion, where the frequency-dependent pre-distortion is generated by expanding the derivative of a product of a pre-distortion function and the input signal and then relaxing constraints on the pre-distortion function and/or on frequency- dependent filtering associated with the frequency-dependent pre-distortion. In one implementation, four different frequency-dependent pre-distortion signals are generated for the expansion using up to four different pre-distortion functions and up to four different frequency-dependent filters.
Abstract:
Signal modulation apparatus for applying a modulation signal to a carrier signal, the apparatus comprising: an amplitude modulator for modulating the amplitude of the carrier signal in accordance with a control signal; first mixing means for mixing together fractions of the carrier signal before and after action of the amplitude modulator to produce a first detection signal indicative of the amplitude modulation applied by the amplitude modulator; and detection means for comparing the control signal with a first detection signal to evaluate distortion in the first detection signal as compared with the control signal.
Abstract:
An embodiment of the invention is a time-delay invariant predistortion approach to linearize power amplifiers in wireless RF transmitters. The predistortion architecture is based on the stored-compensation or memory-compensation principle by using a combined time-delay addressing method, and therefore, the architecture has an intrinsic, self-calibrating time-delay compensation function. The predistortion architecture only uses a lookup table to conduct both the correction of non-linear responses of a power amplifier and the compensation of any time-delay effects presented in the same system. Due to the time-delay invariant characteristic, the predistortion design has a wider dynamic range processing advantage for wireless RF signals, and therefore can be implemented in multi-carrier and multi-channel wireless systems.
Abstract:
A system (100) for power amplification of an RF signal including polar feedback control. The system may include a feedback-controlled modulator (110) configured to modulate an RF signal based on a feedback-corrected control signal. The modulator (110) is further configured to generate a modulated RF signal. The system also may include a phase shifter configured to correct the phase of the modulated RF signal based on a feedback phase control signal. The system further includes a power amplifier (112) in communication with the modulator, and/or the phase shifter. The amplifier (112) is configured to amplify the modulated RF signal and to generate an amplified RF output signal. The system also includes a feedback network (116) configured to generate polar feedback signals, including the feedback-corrected control signal and/or the feedback phase control signal.
Abstract:
An embodiment of the invention uses a predistortion correction signal to combination the modulated RF signal by an analog multiplier for linearization of power amplifiers having nonlinear characteristics such as those used in wireless RF transmitters. A predistortion controller comprises a plurality of down converters for retrieving both the ideal non-distorted information and the feedback distorted information, together with pre-stored digitally-indexed predistortion information stored, for example, in a look-up table. The digitally- indexed information models nonlinear characteristics of the high power amplifier, and is stored prior to processing of pre-compensation in the power amplifier. When the predistortion information is combined with the modulated RF signal in the analog multiplier, the result is a substantially linear information transmission from the power amplifier.
Abstract:
A supply voltage to a power amplifier is controlled. A signal at a single point in a power amplifier is detected (600). A signal parameter is determined (602) for the detected signal. The signal parameter is compared (604) to at least one predetermined limit. This comparison result is used to determine (606) whether to adjust (608) a supply voltage to the power amplifier. The signal parameter is, for example, an average power or a peak-to-average power ratio.