Method and apparatus for linear transmission by direct inverse modeling
US5923712A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | May 5, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jul 13, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 5, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH03F2201/3233
- WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system for linearly transmitting an amplified output signal using predistortion whereby a straight inverse modeling scheme is used to more easily and accurately determine the inverse of the distortion caused by a power amplifier of a RF transmitter. The "inverse" of the power amplifier is directly modeled by considering the power amplifier as a signal processing block with the input and output ports reversed. As a result, the computationally intensive inversion required by conventional schemes is avoided. The predistorter system stores complex coefficients in a predistorter LUT, which are then used as the tap weights of a digital filter implementing the predistorter. The predistortion is done by a non-linear filter which incorporates both instantaneous and average envelope power or magnitude effects. The predistortion LUT is addressed as a function of the instantaneous envelope power or magnitude and past power or magnitude envelopes. This scheme takes into account the instantaneous envelope power or magnitude of the current sample and a profile of the envelope power or magnitude of previous samples to accurately compensate for modulation envelope memory effects of the power ampl…
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.