A Modified Canonical Piecewise-Linear Function-Based Behavioral Model for Wideband Power Amplifiers

A modified canonical piecewise-linear function (CPWL)-based model is proposed for characterizing wideband power amplifiers. The model has a similar structure of the decomposed vector rotation (DVR) model but without DVR operations, in which the first-order basis function can be replaced by a second-order function by analysis. The model has lower complexity than the DVR model and the model parameter scan be estimated by least-square method. Experimental results show that the proposed model nearly gives the same normalized mean square error performance as the DVR model when a wideband Doherty power amplifier is excited by a 5-carrier long-term evolution advanced (LTE-A) signal of 100 MHz bandwidth.

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