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    Output-Controllable Partial Inverse Digital Predistortion for RF Power Amplifiers
    In this paper, an output-controllable digital predistortion (DPD) technique is proposed to partially inverse the nonlinear behavior of RF power amplifiers (PAs). Compared to the existing DPD, the proposed method changes the goal that the PA output must be exactly the same as the original input to a new one that the PA output can be arbitrarily controlled according to user's demand. The proposed approach largely expands the capability of DPD and thus provides more flexibility for system designers to effectively use DPD to manipulate the PA output in order to handle more application scenarios and objectively conduct further system optimization. Various application cases have been tested. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach has great potential in future wireless communication system design.
    Scopus© Citations 11  374
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    A reconfigurable in-band digital predistortion technique for mmWave power amplifiers excited by a signal with 640 MHz modulation bandwidth
    In this paper, a novel in-band digital predistortion (I-DPD) technique with a reconfigurable coefficient pyramid is proposed to linearize a mmWave power amplifier excited by a modulated signal with very large bandwidth, such as 640 MHz. This method can overcome the multiple bandwidth regrowth issue in conventional DPD operation that normally places a burden on the 5G applications. By employing a coefficient pyramid, the proposed method can efficiently select the necessary core functions to build the nonlinear kernels according to the operation modes, which can largely reduce the power consumption and thus increase the system efficiency. Experimental results with 640MHz modulated signal proves that extending the DPD capability into the forthcoming 5G is possible.
    Scopus© Citations 3  457
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    Real-Time Single Channel Over-the-Air Data Acquisition for Digital Predistortion of 5G Massive MIMO Wireless Transmitters
    In this paper, a single channel over-the-air (OTA) data acquisition approach for real-time calibration of digital predistorter in multiple-input multiple-output transmitters is proposed. By using the data acquired from the far-field OTA tests, the output of each power amplifier (PA) can be virtually reconstructed and thus the linearization reference at the main beam direction can be accurately estimated. Digital predistortion (DPD) can therefore be effectively constructed without direct measurement at PA output. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can accurately estimate far-field main beam data and the proposed DPD can achieve excellent linearization performance.
    Scopus© Citations 15  423
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    Power Adaptive Digital Predistortion for Wideband RF Power Amplifiers With Dynamic Power Transmission
    (IEEE, 2015-10-05) ; ;
    To reduce power consumption of wireless transmitters, the transmission power level of RF power amplifiers (PAs) may dynamically change according to real-time data traffic. This leads that the existing digital predistortion (DPD) techniques cannot be directly employed because they are mainly suitable for eliminating distortion induced by the PAs operated at a relatively stable condition, e.g., at a constant average power level. To resolve this problem, a power adaptive DPD is proposed in this paper. By accurately modeling the behavior change pattern of the PA with the input power adjustments and embedding it into the DPD model, the proposed DPD system is able to adjust its coefficients to adapt to the behavior variation of the PA induced by the power adjustments without real-time recalibration. A low-complexity online coefficients updating method is also proposed to track the behavior change of the PA caused by other factors, such as bias shifting or temperature variation, during real-time operation. Measurements with a high power LDMOS Doherty PA have been used to validate the proposed approach. Results show that the proposed DPD and its coefficients updating approach can produce excellent performance with very low complexity compared to the conventional approaches.
    Scopus© Citations 44  467
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    Simplified online coefficients updating for digital predistortion of wideband/multi-band RF power amplifiers
    (IEEE, 2015-12-09) ; ;
    In this paper, a simplified online coefficients updating technique is proposed to realize real-time timing of digital predistortion (DPD) for RF power amplifiers (PAs), particularly focusing on wideband and concurrent multi-band scenarios. It is achieved by equally weighting the memory terms in conventional DPD models that leads to a significant reduction of numerical calculation complexity in the coefficients updating process and thus saves time and power during real system operation. To validate the proposed method, both wideband LTE- A (100 MHz) and concurrent dual-band (20 MHz + 20 MHz) cases have been tested. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve excellent performance with significant reduction of system complexity compared to the conventional approaches.
    Scopus© Citations 2  351
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    Pattern Sensing Based Digital Predistortion of RF Power Amplifiers under Dynamical Signal Transmission
    In this paper, a pattern sensing based digital predistortion (DPD) technique for radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) under dynamical signal transmission is proposed. Unlike conventional methods where real time re-calibration is required, this approach utilizes a low resolution amplitude-modulation to amplitude-modulation (AM/AM) pattern to sense PA characteristics and then quickly select proper DPD coefficients to linearize the PA. Experimental results show that the proposed method can provide an efficient a nd effective w ay to deal with complex dynamic signal transmission scenarios and maintain very good linearization performance, which is very suitable for future 5G applications.
    Scopus© Citations 2  204
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    High-performance digital predistortion test platform development for wideband RF power amplifiers
    (Cambridge University Press, 2013-04) ; ; ;
    In this paper, a complete design procedure, together with robust system validation approaches, is presented for implementing a high-performance re-configurable digital predistortion (DPD) test platform for compensating for nonlinear distortion and memory effects induced by radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) in the transmitters of modern wireless communication systems. This hardware and software co-operated test system not only enables effective validation for DPD algorithm development, but also provides a high-performance and reliable hardware-based linearization test platform. The experimental test was applied on a medium power Doherty amplifier, which was designed for 3 G/4 G wireless communication base stations. By applying our DPD algorithms on the proposed platform, more than 30 dB improvements in adjacent channel power ratio can be achieved for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System and long-term evolution signal excitations.
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    Digital Compensation for Transmitter Leakage in Non-Contiguous Carrier Aggregation Applications With FPGA Implementation
    In this paper, a generalized dual-basis envelope-dependent sideband (GDES) distortion model structure is proposed to compensate the distortion induced by transmitter leakage in concurrent multi-band transceivers with non-contiguous carrier aggregation. This model has a generalized structure that is constructed via first generating a nonlinear basis function that maps the inputs to the target frequency band where the distortion is to be cancelled, and then multiplying with a second basis function that generates envelope-dependent nonlinearities. By combining these two bases, the model keeps in a relatively compact form that can be flexibly implemented in digital circuits such as field programmable gate array (FPGA). Experimental results demonstrated that excellent suppression performance can be achieved with very low implementation complexity by employing the proposed model.
    Scopus© Citations 16  591
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    A Single Envelope Modulator-Based Envelope-Tracking Structure for Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Wireless Transmitters
    (IEEE, 2012-10) ;
    A single envelope modulator-based envelope tracking (ET) power amplifier (PA) structure with a related digital predistortion (DPD) technique for multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) wireless transmitters is presented in this paper. By generating a common tracking envelope, only one envelope modulator is employed for controlling supply voltage of the RF PAs in all branches in the system, which dramatically reduces the system implementation cost. Due to the structurechange, additional distortion is introduced, and it is difficult to directly compensate by using the conventional DPD because the tracking envelope is no longer the same as the RF envelope and thus the MIMO ET PA becomes a two-input and one-output system. To resolve this problem, in this paper we propose a novel DPD technique in which the PA input and output data are reconstructed into multiple data subsets according to variations of the tracking envelope. It converts the 2-to-1 mapping into multiple 1-to-1 ones, where the conventional DPD can be employed again. Experimental results demonstrated that the distortion, including static nonlinearities, memory effects and additional distortion caused by the structure change, can be effectively compensated by using the proposed DPD technique. Compared to the conventional ET, the overall efficiency of the system is only slightly decreased, but the system cost is much lower because only one envelope modulator is required in the whole system.
    Scopus© Citations 24  447
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    Single-Model Single-Feedback Digital Predistortion for Concurrent Multi-band Wireless Transmitters
    In this paper, a novel single-model single-feedback digital predistortion (DPD) technique is proposed to linearize concurrent multi-band wireless transmitters. By employing carrier relocation and band-limiting functions in digital signal processing, DPD model complexity is significantly reduced and only one narrowband feedback loop is required for data acquisition. In the new system, the linearization bandwidth can be arbitrarily reconfigured, which provides considerable flexibility for DPD system design in wideband concurrent operations. Experimental tests were conducted to validate various cases including a concurrent quad-band scenario that is reported for the first time to date. Excellent performance demonstrates that the proposed approach provides an effective solution for reducing DPD system implementation complexity and cost in both digital and analog domains for future wideband concurrent multi-band transmitters.
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