ADAPTIVE DIGITAL PREDISTORTION LINEARISATION FOR RF POWER AMPLIFIERS

Development of linear modulation schemes has opened the way for spectrally efficient,high speed digital communication systems for voice and data applications. A trend has been to develop utra wide and wide bandwidth modulation formats, which has meant feedback linearisation schemes (both analogue and digital) are no longer effective. This has in turn lead to a number of approaches that involve predistorting the signal prior to amplification, with a characteristic that is the inverse to that of the power amplifier (PA). This paper presents a polynomial based predistortion for linearisation of an RF PA. The predistortion characteristic is adaptive, using the LMS algorithm to minimise the mean squared error between output of the PA, and a scaled version of the baseband signal. The simulation of this system indicate that this system can provide 40 dB decrease in ACPR by reducing the 3rd and 5th order IMD products.

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