A digital predistorted class-F power amplifier （PA） using Cree GaN HEMT CGH40010 operating at 2. 12 GHz is presented to obtain high efficiency and excellent linearity for wideband code-division multiple access （ WC...A digital predistorted class-F power amplifier （PA） using Cree GaN HEMT CGH40010 operating at 2. 12 GHz is presented to obtain high efficiency and excellent linearity for wideband code-division multiple access （ WCDMA ） applications. Measurement results with the continuous wave （CW） signals indicate that the designed class-F PA achieves a peak power-added efficiency （PAE） of 75. 2% with an output power of 39.4 dBm. The adjacent channel power ratio （ACPR） of the designed PA after digital predistortion （DPD） decreases from -28. 3 and -27. 5 dBc to -51.9 and -54. 0 dBc, respectively, for a 4-carrier 20 MHz WCDMA signal with 7. 1 dB peak to average power ratio （PAPR）. The drain efficiency （DE） of the PA is 37. 8% at an average output power of 33. 3 dBm. The designed power amplifier can be aoolied in the WCDMA system.展开更多
To compensate for nonlinear distortion introduced by RF power amplifiers （PAs） with memory effects, two correlated models, namely an extended memory polynomial （EMP） model and a memory lookup table （LUT） model, ...To compensate for nonlinear distortion introduced by RF power amplifiers （PAs） with memory effects, two correlated models, namely an extended memory polynomial （EMP） model and a memory lookup table （LUT） model, are proposed for predistorter design. Two adaptive digital predistortion （ADPD） schemes with indirect learning architecture are presented. One adopts the EMP model and the recursive least square （RLS） algorithm, and the other utilizes the memory LUT model and the least mean square （LMS） algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that the EMP-based ADPD yields the best linearization performance in terms of suppressing spectral regrowth. It is also shown that the ADPD based on memory LUT makes optimum tradeoff between performance and computational complexity.展开更多
Digital PreDistortion(DPD)is a very useful method to improve the linearity of Power Amplifiers(PAs)for LTE and upcoming 5 G networks.As the spectrum resources are becoming more and more crowded,and the communications ...Digital PreDistortion(DPD)is a very useful method to improve the linearity of Power Amplifiers(PAs)for LTE and upcoming 5 G networks.As the spectrum resources are becoming more and more crowded,and the communications bandwidth are broader,the ACPR(Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio)is very important to communication systems.DPD is one of the useful means for PA to reduce ACPR.This article demonstrates what DPD is and how DPD is achieved,the measurement of the Digital Distortion of a PA using a vector generator and vector analyzer,and the measurement results has been discussed.展开更多
A robust digital predistortion(DPD)technique utilizing negative feedback iteration is introduced for linearizing power amplifiers(PAs)in long term evolution(LTE)/5G systems.Different from the conventional direct learn...A robust digital predistortion(DPD)technique utilizing negative feedback iteration is introduced for linearizing power amplifiers(PAs)in long term evolution(LTE)/5G systems.Different from the conventional direct learning and indirect learning structure,the proposed DPD suggests a two-step method to identify the predistortion.Firstly,a negative feedback based iteration is used to estimate the optimal DPD signal.Then the corresponding DPD parameters are extracted by forward modeling with the input signal and optimal DPD signal.The iteration can be applied to both single-band and dual-band PAs,which will achieve superior linear performance than the conventional direct learning DPD while having a relatively low computational complexity.The measurement is carried out on a broadband Doherty PA(DPA)with a 200 MHz bandwidth LTE signal at 2.1 GHz,and on a 5G DPA with two 10 MHz LTE signals at 3.4/3.6 GHz for validation in dual-band scenarios.展开更多
At present what are the key points focused in the research of loop-delay estimation for the digital predistorter in the radio frequency （RF） power amplifier system is reducing its complexity of engineering realizati...At present what are the key points focused in the research of loop-delay estimation for the digital predistorter in the radio frequency （RF） power amplifier system is reducing its complexity of engineering realization and improving anti-jamming ability and computational speed. Besides, opening up its application scope should be contained. For these targets, a novel method including integer loop delay estimation and fractional part is proposed. The integer part applies amplitude-difference summation function and the fractional one adopts the method of finite impulse response （FIR） linear interpolation. The algorithm finds wide applications. What is more, strong anti-jamming ability and low complexity are also its merits. Simulation results support the above opinion. Digital predistortion （DPD） system based on this algorithm achieves good performance.展开更多
In this paper,a Radio Over Fiber (ROF) system with a Digital Pre-Distorter (DPD) for WCDMA signal transmission is investigated.A Look-Up Table (LUT) based DPD and a Memory Polynomial (MP) DPD are applied in the ROF li...In this paper,a Radio Over Fiber (ROF) system with a Digital Pre-Distorter (DPD) for WCDMA signal transmission is investigated.A Look-Up Table (LUT) based DPD and a Memory Polynomial (MP) DPD are applied in the ROF link so as to suppress the out-of-band spurious spectrum and improve the transmission performance.The experimental results show that the out-of-band emission due to existence of the third-order Inter-Modulation Distortion (IMD3) is obviously sup-pressed by these two DPD.An Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR) improvement of 8 dB is ob-tained for a single-carrier WCDMA signal transmission.These two DPD have equal ability in lin-earization of the ROF system for a three-carrier WCDMA signal transmission.There is no apparent memory effects exist in the ROF link.展开更多
This paper proposes a combination technique of the frequency-domain random demodulation（FRD） and the broadband digital predistorter（DPD）. This technique can linearize the power amplifiers（PAs） at a low sampling ...This paper proposes a combination technique of the frequency-domain random demodulation（FRD） and the broadband digital predistorter（DPD）. This technique can linearize the power amplifiers（PAs） at a low sampling rate in the feedback loop. Based on the theory of compressed sensing（CS）, the FRD method preprocesses the original signal using the frequency domain sampling signal with different stages through multiple parallel channels. Then the FRD method is applied to the broadband DPD system to restrict the sampling process in the feedback loop. The proposed technique is assessed using a 30 W Class-F wideband PA driven by a 20 MHz orthogonal frequency division multiplexing（OFDM） signal, and a 40 W Ga N Doherty PA driven by a 40 MHz 4-carrier long-term evolution（LTE） signal. The simulation and experimental results show that good linearization performance can be achieved at a lower sampling rate with about- 24 d Bc adjacent channel power ratio（ACPR） improvement by applying the proposed combination technique FRD-DPD. Furthermore, the performance of normalized mean square error（NMSE） and error vector magnitude（EVM） also has been much improved compared with the conventional technique.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60702163)the National Science and Technology Major Project(No.2010ZX03007-002-01,2011ZX03004-003)
文摘A digital predistorted class-F power amplifier （PA） using Cree GaN HEMT CGH40010 operating at 2. 12 GHz is presented to obtain high efficiency and excellent linearity for wideband code-division multiple access （ WCDMA ） applications. Measurement results with the continuous wave （CW） signals indicate that the designed class-F PA achieves a peak power-added efficiency （PAE） of 75. 2% with an output power of 39.4 dBm. The adjacent channel power ratio （ACPR） of the designed PA after digital predistortion （DPD） decreases from -28. 3 and -27. 5 dBc to -51.9 and -54. 0 dBc, respectively, for a 4-carrier 20 MHz WCDMA signal with 7. 1 dB peak to average power ratio （PAPR）. The drain efficiency （DE） of the PA is 37. 8% at an average output power of 33. 3 dBm. The designed power amplifier can be aoolied in the WCDMA system.
文摘To compensate for nonlinear distortion introduced by RF power amplifiers （PAs） with memory effects, two correlated models, namely an extended memory polynomial （EMP） model and a memory lookup table （LUT） model, are proposed for predistorter design. Two adaptive digital predistortion （ADPD） schemes with indirect learning architecture are presented. One adopts the EMP model and the recursive least square （RLS） algorithm, and the other utilizes the memory LUT model and the least mean square （LMS） algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that the EMP-based ADPD yields the best linearization performance in terms of suppressing spectral regrowth. It is also shown that the ADPD based on memory LUT makes optimum tradeoff between performance and computational complexity.
基金supported by Shenzhen Strategic Emerging Industry Development Fund Project——Public service platform for 5G key components testing(20170921165224440)
文摘Digital PreDistortion(DPD)is a very useful method to improve the linearity of Power Amplifiers(PAs)for LTE and upcoming 5 G networks.As the spectrum resources are becoming more and more crowded,and the communications bandwidth are broader,the ACPR(Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio)is very important to communication systems.DPD is one of the useful means for PA to reduce ACPR.This article demonstrates what DPD is and how DPD is achieved,the measurement of the Digital Distortion of a PA using a vector generator and vector analyzer,and the measurement results has been discussed.
基金National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No.2018YFB1801603 and No.2017YFF0206201National Sci⁃ence and Technology Major Project under Grant 2017ZX03001024,NSFC under Grant No.61801259 and Beijing National Research Center for Infor⁃mation Science and Technology(BNRist).
文摘A robust digital predistortion(DPD)technique utilizing negative feedback iteration is introduced for linearizing power amplifiers(PAs)in long term evolution(LTE)/5G systems.Different from the conventional direct learning and indirect learning structure,the proposed DPD suggests a two-step method to identify the predistortion.Firstly,a negative feedback based iteration is used to estimate the optimal DPD signal.Then the corresponding DPD parameters are extracted by forward modeling with the input signal and optimal DPD signal.The iteration can be applied to both single-band and dual-band PAs,which will achieve superior linear performance than the conventional direct learning DPD while having a relatively low computational complexity.The measurement is carried out on a broadband Doherty PA(DPA)with a 200 MHz bandwidth LTE signal at 2.1 GHz,and on a 5G DPA with two 10 MHz LTE signals at 3.4/3.6 GHz for validation in dual-band scenarios.
基金supported by the Circuit and System Foremost Discipline of Zhejiang Province under Grant No. ZZ050103-11
文摘At present what are the key points focused in the research of loop-delay estimation for the digital predistorter in the radio frequency （RF） power amplifier system is reducing its complexity of engineering realization and improving anti-jamming ability and computational speed. Besides, opening up its application scope should be contained. For these targets, a novel method including integer loop delay estimation and fractional part is proposed. The integer part applies amplitude-difference summation function and the fractional one adopts the method of finite impulse response （FIR） linear interpolation. The algorithm finds wide applications. What is more, strong anti-jamming ability and low complexity are also its merits. Simulation results support the above opinion. Digital predistortion （DPD） system based on this algorithm achieves good performance.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60972064)
文摘In this paper,a Radio Over Fiber (ROF) system with a Digital Pre-Distorter (DPD) for WCDMA signal transmission is investigated.A Look-Up Table (LUT) based DPD and a Memory Polynomial (MP) DPD are applied in the ROF link so as to suppress the out-of-band spurious spectrum and improve the transmission performance.The experimental results show that the out-of-band emission due to existence of the third-order Inter-Modulation Distortion (IMD3) is obviously sup-pressed by these two DPD.An Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR) improvement of 8 dB is ob-tained for a single-carrier WCDMA signal transmission.These two DPD have equal ability in lin-earization of the ROF system for a three-carrier WCDMA signal transmission.There is no apparent memory effects exist in the ROF link.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2014CB339900)the National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (2015AA016801)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61327806)
文摘This paper proposes a combination technique of the frequency-domain random demodulation（FRD） and the broadband digital predistorter（DPD）. This technique can linearize the power amplifiers（PAs） at a low sampling rate in the feedback loop. Based on the theory of compressed sensing（CS）, the FRD method preprocesses the original signal using the frequency domain sampling signal with different stages through multiple parallel channels. Then the FRD method is applied to the broadband DPD system to restrict the sampling process in the feedback loop. The proposed technique is assessed using a 30 W Class-F wideband PA driven by a 20 MHz orthogonal frequency division multiplexing（OFDM） signal, and a 40 W Ga N Doherty PA driven by a 40 MHz 4-carrier long-term evolution（LTE） signal. The simulation and experimental results show that good linearization performance can be achieved at a lower sampling rate with about- 24 d Bc adjacent channel power ratio（ACPR） improvement by applying the proposed combination technique FRD-DPD. Furthermore, the performance of normalized mean square error（NMSE） and error vector magnitude（EVM） also has been much improved compared with the conventional technique.
文摘近年来,深度学习(Deep Learning,DL)在通信场景中的应用逐渐兴起,其中就包括射频发射机的数字预失真(Digital Predistortion,DPD)处理。然而,由于射频功率放大器(Power Amplifier,PA)固有的非线性失真和记忆效应特点,如果直接应用传统DL算法去实现DPD会出现拟合效果不佳、自适应性差等现象。针对这个问题,本文提出了一种由多智能体反馈神经网络实现的数字预失真器(Multi-Agent Feedback Enabled Neural Network for Digital Predistortion,MAFENN-DPD),该网络引入了具有高纠错能力的反馈智能体结构,其主要特点是基于Stackelberg博弈理论去加速网络训练和收敛,同时我们还应用信息瓶颈理论指导网络超参数设计以增强MAFENN-DPD对PA记忆效应变化的动态适应能力。我们进行了一系列的实验来验证MAFENN-DPD的有效性。与使用典型前馈网络实现的DPD方案相比,基于MAFENN-DPD的方案在相邻信道功率比(Adjacent Channel Power Ratio,ACPR)指标上提高了约5 dB。同时,在没有通信过程中的大量先验知识的情况下,MAFENN-DPD实现了与使用记忆多项式方法建模的DPD方案十分接近的ACPR性能。仿真结果说明MAFENN-DPD相比传统神经网络可进一步提升ACPR性能,同时相比记忆多项式方法具有更好的自适应建模能力和通用性,并且具有多智能体反馈结构特征的神经网络未来在其他的通信场景中也具有应用推广的潜力。
