Concurrent Multi-Band Envelope Modulated Power Amplifier Linearized Using Extended Phase-Aligned DPD

This paper reports an envelope tracking (ET) transmitter architecture for multi-band/widely-spaced carrier signals. Due to the bandwidth limitations of the envelope modulator, the dynamic supply voltage is controlled by combining the low frequency envelopes of the multi-inputs rather than the true composite envelope of the input signals. The ET transmitter is tested for dual-band and tri-band power amplifiers (PAs) operating in concurrent mode using various bandwidth carrier aggregated long term evolution (LTE) signals. The transmitter is linearized using a phase-aligned Volterra digital predistortion that considers the inter-modulation distortion (IMD) products around the carrier frequencies as well as the third-order IMD products in the tri-band case. Experimental results are shown to validate the proposed techniques for linearization and efficiency enhancement of the multi-band ET transmitter and compared to the case of fixed supply biasing of the PA.

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