| 摘要 |
A system for digitally linearizing the nonlinear behaviour of RF high efficiency amplifiers employing baseband predistortion techniques is disclosed. The system provides additive or multiplicative predistortion of the digital quadrature (I/Q) input signal in order to minimize distortion at the output of the amplifier. The predistorter (108) uses a discrete-time polynomial kernel to model the inverse transfer characteristic of the amplifier (100), providing separate and simultaneous compensation for nonlinear static distortion, linear dynamic distortion and nonlinear dynamic effects including reactive electrical memory effects. Compensation for thermal memory effects also is embedded in the nonlinear dynamic compensation operation of the predistorter (108) and is implemented parametrically using an autoregressive dynamics tracking mechanism. A predistortion controller (420) periodically monitors the output of the amplifier (100) and compares it to the quadrature input signal to compute estimates of the residual output distortion of the amplifier (100). Output distortion estimates are used to adaptively compute the values of the parameters of the predistorter (108) in response to changes in the amplifiers operating conditions (temperature drifts, changes in modulation input bandwidth, variations in drive level, aging, etc). The predistortion parameter values computed by the predistortion controller are stored in non-volatile memory and used in polynomial digital predistorter (108). The digital predistortion system of the invention may provide broadband linearization of highly nonlinear and highly efficient RF amplification circuits including, but not limited to, dynamic load modulation amplifiers.
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