A novel envelope design for an envelope tracking(ET)power amplifier(PA)based on its derivatives is proposed,which can trade well off between bandwidth reduc-tion and tracking accuracy.This paper theoretically analyzes...A novel envelope design for an envelope tracking(ET)power amplifier(PA)based on its derivatives is proposed,which can trade well off between bandwidth reduc-tion and tracking accuracy.This paper theoretically analyzes how to choose an envelope design that can track the original envelope closely and reduce its bandwidth,and then demonstrates an example to validate this idea.The generalized memory polynomial(GMP)model is applied to compensate for the nonlinearity of ET PA with the proposed envelope design.Experiments are carried out on an ET system that is operated with the center fre-quency of 3.5 GHz and excited by a 20 MHz LTE signal,which show that the proposed en-velope design can make a good trade-off between envelope bandwidth and efficiency,and satisfactory linearization performance can be realized.展开更多
文摘A novel envelope design for an envelope tracking(ET)power amplifier(PA)based on its derivatives is proposed,which can trade well off between bandwidth reduc-tion and tracking accuracy.This paper theoretically analyzes how to choose an envelope design that can track the original envelope closely and reduce its bandwidth,and then demonstrates an example to validate this idea.The generalized memory polynomial(GMP)model is applied to compensate for the nonlinearity of ET PA with the proposed envelope design.Experiments are carried out on an ET system that is operated with the center fre-quency of 3.5 GHz and excited by a 20 MHz LTE signal,which show that the proposed en-velope design can make a good trade-off between envelope bandwidth and efficiency,and satisfactory linearization performance can be realized.
