Title
Method Of Determining Delay Dependence Of The Memory Effect In Power Amplifiers And Derivation Of Inverse To Cancel The Nonlinear Distortions
Abstract
This paper describes the details of the iteration process used to determine the transfer functions of linear time-invariant (LTI) circuits causing the memory effect of power amplifier (PA). An outline of the method is reported in our work presented at ICCS2012. The accuracy of the method is improved by using cross-correlation spectra at three signal levels, and its validity is confirmed by a computer simulation. The method can be applied to online updating of PAs operating in mobile communication systems. The updating is realized separately from the fast varying nonlinear coefficients. The possibility of updating with a short interval is indirectly shown for the nonlinear coefficients using a procedure similar to that of memoryless PAs. For PAs characterized by the method, this paper also describes the inverses that cancel the nonlinear distortion with minimum complexity. The validity of the inverse is confirmed by a computer simulation on the power spectrum of the PA for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signals with 500 subcarriers. The simulated spectra show that the fifth order or higher inverses are effective in keeping adjacent channel leakage power ratio (ACLR) lower than -60 dB at the practical signal level. Improvements in the error vector magnitude (EVM) due to the inverse were also confirmed by reductions of gain and phase variations under varying envelope conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1587/transfun.E97.A.749
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Keywords
Field
DocType
power amplifier, IMD, LTI, memory effect, predistortion
Inverse,Nonlinear system,Control theory,Linear amplifier,Mathematics,Predistortion,Amplifier
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E97A
3
0916-8508
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eisuke Fukuda1379.23
Yasuyuki Oishi2338.87
Takeshi Takano352.87
Daisuke Takago402.37
Yoshimasa Daido563.92
Hiroyuki Morikawa643269.52