Adaptive predistorter for power amplifier based on real-timeestimation of envelope transfer characteristics

A new adaptation technique for digital predistortion is presented. The proposed method employs the real-time input and output signals of a high power amplifier (HPA) to estimate the complex envelope transfer characteristics. Therefore, a look-up table update can be performed without Interrupting the normal transmission of messages through an HPA     

Orthogonal polynomials for power amplifier modeling and predistorter design

The polynomial model is commonly used in power amplifier (PA) modeling and predistorter design. However, the conventional polynomial model exhibits numerical instabilities when higher order terms are included. In this paper, we introduce a novel set of orthogonal polynomials, which can be used for PA as well as predistorter modeling. Theoretically, the conventional and orthogonal polynomial models are "equivalent" and, thus, should behave similarly. In practice, however, the two approaches can perform quite differently in the presence of finite precision processing. Simulation results show that the orthogonal polynomials can alleviate the numerical instability problem associated with the conventional polynomials and generally yield better PA modeling accuracy as well as predistortion linearization performance.     

一种前馈型线性功放的自适应算法

前馈型线性功放是现代功率放大器研究和设计中的一个重要部分。基于前馈型线性功放特征以及自适应技术,提出了一种全新的自适应算法。理论分析和计算机仿真结果表明:本文所提出的自适应算法不仅收敛速度快,同时还具有迭代稳定、可靠的特征。从实验结果也可以看出,采用这种新型自适应算法的前馈型线性功率放大器,系统性能指标和现有功率放大器相比都得了大幅度提高。     

基于功率检测自适应的前馈功放设计

分析了常用双环自适应前馈电路在屏蔽和宽带频率兼顾等地方的缺陷,设计了一个功率检测自适应电路。功率检测自适应应用于前馈系统第一极环路,通过MCU监控电压检测值,自动调节第一环路的移相、调幅矢量调节器,改变相位、幅度参数,以达到环路抵消最好,保证在功率与频率不断变化的情况下,误差信号提取时刻都保持最纯净。仿真结果显示,在输出125W的GSM前馈系统中,可使其IMD3小于-65dBc。     

Piecewise-polynomial and cascade models of predistorter for linearization of power amplifier

To combat non-linear signal distortions in a power amplifier we suggest using predistorter with cascade structure in which first and second nodes have piecewise-polynomial and polynomial models. On example of linearizing the Winner-Hammerstein amplifier model we demonstrate that cascade structure of predistorter improves precision of amplifier??s linearization. To simplify predistorter??s synthesis the degree of polynomial model used in first node should be moderate, while precision should be improved by higher degree of second node??s polynomial.     

Future power sources for mobile communications

As the encroachment of portable electronics into everyday life continues, the demand for improved power sources is continuing to increase. New technologies such as nickel metal hydride and lithium ion batteries have largely replaced nickel cadmium systems because of their superior performance. The paper reviews the developments in battery technology and looks ahead to the future of portable power sources. In doing so it aims to advise the reader on the possible future technologies that they may one day be using     

An implementation of a CMA adaptive array for high speed GMSKtransmission in mobile communications

The hardware implementation of an adaptive array as a technique for compensating multipath fading in mobile communications is described. The number of the antenna elements is four. The target communication system is modulated by 256 kbps Gaussian-filtered minimum shift keying (MSK) and has a time-division multiplexing (TDM) architecture with 24 time slots. Based on the digital beamforming concept, all of the signals and the array weights are digital-signal processed. The constant modulus algorithm (CMA) is employed for weight optimizing. In an additive white Gaussian noise channel, this system has 5.6-dB gain in an energy-per-bit-to-noise-density ratio at a bit error rate (BER) of 1.0×10^-3, compared with a single antenna system. The result of the basic field test shows that the gain at a BER of 1.0×10^-3 reaches 22.3 dB in a nonselective, slow Rayleigh fading channel given a 5 Hz maximum Doppler shift     

An InGaP-GaAs HBT MMIC smart power amplifier for W-CDMA mobile handsets

We demonstrate a new linearized monolithic microwave integrated circuit smart power amplifier of extraordinary high power-added efficiency (PAE), especially at the most probable transmission power of wide-band code-division multiple-access handsets. A PAE of 21% at 16 dBm of output power, which is the maximum bound of the most probable transmission power in IS-95 systems, was obtained, as well as 40% at 28 dBm, the required maximum output power, with a single-chip MMIC power amplifier. The power amplifier has been devised with two InGaP-GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistor amplifying chains parallel connected, each chain being optimized for a different P/sub 1dB/ (1-dB compression point) value: one for 16 dBm for the low-power mode, targeting the most probable transmission power, and the other for 28 dBm for the high-power mode. The high-power mode operation shows 40% of PAE and -30 dBc of adjacent channel leakage power ratio (ACLR) at the maximum output power of 28 dBm. The low-power mode operation exhibits -34 dBc of ACLR at 16 dBm with 14 mA of a quiescent current. This amplifier improves power usage efficiency and, consequently, the battery lifetime of the handset by a factor of three.     

Downlink adaptive array algorithms for cellular mobile communications

The capacity of wireless downlink communication to mobile receivers in a dense urban environment is limited primarily by co-channel interference. Downlink adaptive arrays can be used to mitigate this limitation by maximizing the power transmitted to desired in-cell mobiles in the reference cell while minimizing power to co-channel mobiles in neighboring cells. This is accomplished by using uplink measurements to estimate downlink covariance matrices and then solving a generalized eigenvalue problem. Several algorithms are proposed to adaptively estimate the optimal solution and are evaluated using a simplified signal model that allows efficient deterministic performance calculations.     

Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) digital predistorter for RF power amplifier linearization

This paper describes an adaptive digital predistorter (ADP) for RF power amplifier (PA) linearization using an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). The ANFIS predistorter (PD) employs the advantage of real-time modeling of the PA's responses in determining the PD's functions. The amplitude and phase corrections for the PD are represented in an easy-to-understand fuzzy if-then rule, while the parameters involved in the fuzzy representation are trained using neural networks algorithms, namely gradient-descent and least squares estimate (LSE). Experimental results show that a 26.3-dB improvement in linearity for a two-tone signal is obtained, while a distorted WCDMA signal is suppressed by at least 12 dB. The adaptability of the ANFIS PD to instantaneous variation in PA responses through time is also demonstrated, and results show that the ANFIS PD is capable of adapting to simulated environmental changes, which is a topic often omitted by researchers in this area. Further testing demonstrated that the tuning parameters involved in the training could be reduced by more than half for a fairly nonlinear PA without significantly degrading the suppression capability.     

1.8 GHz class E power amplifier for wireless communications

The authors present a 1.8 GHz class E power amplifier for wireless communications. A fully integrated class E power amplifier module was designed, fabricated and tested. The circuit was implemented in a self-aligned-gate, depletion mode 0.8 μm GaAs MESFET process. The amplifier delivers 23 dBm of power to the 50Ω load, with a power added efficiency of 57% at a supply voltage of 2.4 V     

A cascode modulated class-E power amplifier for wireless communications

A cascode modulated CMOS class-E power amplifier (PA) is presented in this paper. It is shown that by applying a modulated signal to the gate of the cascode transistor the output power is modulated. The main advantage of the proposed technique is a high 35 dB output power dynamic range. The peak power added efficiency (PAE) is 35%. The concept of the cascode power control of class-E RF PA operating at 2.2 GHz with 18 dBm output power was implemented in a CMOS technology and the performance has been verified by measurements. The prototype CMOS PA is tested by single tone excitation and by enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE) modulated signal. Digital predistortion is used to linearize the transfer characteristic. The EDGE spectrum mask is met and the rms error vector magnitude (EVM) is less than 4° in the entire output power range.     

Kalman filtering for power estimation in mobile communications

In wireless cellular communications, accurate local mean (shadow) power estimation performed at a mobile station is important for use in power control, handoff, and adaptive transmission. Window-based weighted sample average shadow power estimators are commonly used due to their simplicity. In practice, the performance of these estimators degrades severely when the window size deviates beyond a certain range. The optimal window size for window-based estimators is hard to determine and track in practice due to the continuously changing fading environment. Based on a first-order autoregressive model of the shadow process, we propose a scalar Kalman-filter-based approach for improved local mean power estimation, with only slightly increased computational complexity. Our analysis and experiments show promising results.     

An adaptive data predistorter for compensation of nonlineardistortion in OFDM systems

In this paper, an adaptive data predistortion technique which can compensate for the nonlinear effect of a TWT high-power amplifier (HPA) in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is proposed. It is shown that the convergence time and MSE of an adaptive data predistorter can be significantly reduced by using a broadcasting technique and by designing appropriate training signals     

Band III: dead or alive? [mobile communications]

For many years TV broadcasting and private mobile radio (PMR) have been fighting over radio frequencies that both considered vital for their development. The VHF Band III has been given to the broadcasters and PMR services alternately and is now owned by PMR ser,vices. However the Government is considering reinstituting TV broadcasting in the VHF bands. The author discusses how mobile communications, based on trunking technology, will be affected by the loss of Band III     

An intelligent power amplifier MMIC using a new adaptive bias control circuit for W-CDMA applications

A high-linearity and high-efficiency MMIC power amplifier is proposed that adopts a new on-chip adaptive bias control circuit, which simultaneously improves efficiency at the low output power level and linearity at the high output power level. The adaptive bias control circuit detects the input power level and supplies a low quiescent current of 16 mA at the low output power level and an increased current up to 90 mA according to the increased power level adaptively. The intelligent W-CDMA power amplifier using the adaptive bias circuit exhibits an improvement of average power usage efficiency of more than 1.93 times, and an adjacent channel leakage ratio by 4 dB at the output power of 28.3 dBm.     

自适应RBF神经网络在CDMA移动通信上行链路功率控制中的应用研究

提出了一种自适应RBF神经网络功率控制方案。详细研究了该网络在DS-CDMA通信中，进行上行链路闭环功率控制(基于信扰比(SIR))的应用理论，给出了该网络参数的计算方法。最后用计算机仿真法模拟出该控制器的运行性能。结果表明基于SIR的自适应RBF神经网络功率控制器能自适应地调整移动台的发射功率，使基站接收信号的信扰比始终非常接近于一个常数，且有比定步长功率控制更小的SIR跟踪误差，从而可以降低接收信号的中断概率、提高信道容量。     

移动终端射频功放的动态电源管理与控制

本文研究WCDMA移动终端射频功放供电效率问题.分析了射频功放特性和电池放电特性,给出了考虑射频输出功率分布的动态电源管理方案和控制算法,分析结果表明:与常规的电池直接供电方案相比较,按照移动终端在城市的发射功率分布模型,新方案射频功放所需的平均功率降低了3.5倍,可以大大延长手机通话和待机时间.