An improvement method for reducing power amplifiers memory effects based on complex gain predistortion

Efficient RF power amplifiers used in third generation systems require linearization in order to reduce adjacent channel inter-modulation distortion, without sacrificing efficiency. Digital baseband predistortion is a highly cost-effective way to linearize power amplifiers (PAs), but most existing a...

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Main Authors: Varahram, Pooria, Mohammady, Somayeh, Hamidon, Mohd Nizar, Mohd Sidek, Roslina, Khatun, Sabira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information 2010
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13041/1/An%20improvement%20method%20for%20reducing%20power%20amplifiers%20memory%20effects%20based%20on%20complex%20gain%20predistortion.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13041/
http://ajbasweb.com/old/ajbas_july_2010.html
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Summary:Efficient RF power amplifiers used in third generation systems require linearization in order to reduce adjacent channel inter-modulation distortion, without sacrificing efficiency. Digital baseband predistortion is a highly cost-effective way to linearize power amplifiers (PAs), but most existing architectures assume that the PA has a memoryless nonlinearity. For wider bandwidth applications such as wideband code-division multiple access (WCDMA) or wideband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (W-OFDM), PA memory effects can no longer be ignored. In this paper we proposed a technique for adaptation of digital predistorter that considers memory effects in power amplifiers.