Mismatch Calibration in LINC Power Amplifiers Using Modified Gradient Algorithm

One of the power amplifiers linearization technique is linear amplification with nonlinear components (LINC).The effects of phase and gain imbalances between two signal branches in LINC transmitters have been analyzed in this paper. Then a feedback path has been added to compensate this mismatches, using two complex gain in each path.This complex gains are controlled in a way to calibrate any gain and phase mismatches between two path using Modified Gradient Algorithm (MGA) adaptively. The main advantages of this algorithm over other algorithms are zero residual error and fast convergence time. In the proposedarchitecture power amplifiers in each path are modeled as a complex gain which its phase and amplitude depend on input signal level. Many simulations have been performed to validate the proposed self calibrating LINC transmitter. Simulation results have confirmed the analyticalpredictions. According to simulation results the proposed structure has around 40 dB/Hz improvement in the first adjacent channel of the output signal spectrum.

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