Title
Low power implementation of digital predistortion filter on a heterogeneous application specific multiprocessor
Abstract
Power-constrained mobile radio communication transmitters drive their transmit power amplifiers close to their saturation regions, which results in nonlinear intermodulation distortion that is especially harmful in multi-cluster and carrier aggregation transmission scenarios. Digital predistortion is a method for linearizing the transmitter and suppressing the most harmful spurious emissions at the transmitter power amplifier output. This paper describes a programmable implementation of a digital predistortion filter on a heterogeneous Transport Trigger Architecture (TTA) multiprocessor. The predistortion algorithm is based on a parallel Hammerstein polynomial model and the experimental results show that the proposed programmable architecture is capable of linearizing a 20 MHz LTE carrier in realtime with a power consumption that is suitable for mobile devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6855227
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Long Term Evolution,VHF filters,digital filters,intermodulation distortion,microcomputers,mobile radio,power amplifiers,programmable filters,radio transmitters,LTE carrier,TTA multiprocessor,carrier aggregation transmission scenario,digital predistortion filter,frequency 20 MHz,harmful spurious emissions,heterogeneous application specific multiprocessor,heterogeneous transport trigger architecture multiprocessor,low power implementation,multicluster transmission scenario,nonlinear intermodulation distortion,parallel Hammerstein polynomial model,power consumption,power-constrained mobile radio communication transmitters drive,programmable implementation,saturation regions,transmit power amplifier output,Digital signal processing,Multicore processing,Predistortion
Transmitter,Mobile radio,Mathematical optimization,Transmitter power output,Nonlinear system,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Multiprocessing,Real-time computing,Intermodulation,Predistortion,Amplifier
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-6149
6
0.61
References 
Authors
8
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amanullah Ghazi1345.73
Jani Boutellier213725.36
Mahmoud Abdelaziz3376.39
Xiaojia Lu4579.26
Lauri Anttila574561.19
Joseph R. Cavallaro61175115.35
Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya71416162.67
Mikko Valkama81567175.51
Markku J. Juntti91065127.57