• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.32-42
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• 2010

In this paper, we represent considering parameters for design of a Cartesian vector modulator predistorter to maximize linearity improvement of the predistorter and propose an advanced Cartesian vector modulator predistrotrer with nonlinear starting point control circuit. In order to confirm the performance of the proposed predistorter, the predistorter is applied to power amplifier with 15 W output power for 2.5 GHz band mobile WiMax 1-FA signal. From the measured results, ACLR of -45.3 dBc with 4 dB improvement of ALCR compared with the previous predistorter is obtained and linearity improvement range is also extended.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2000

We propose a predistorter to compensate for nolinear distortion induced by a high power amplifier employed in multi carrier-code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems. The proposed scheme rests upon the fixed point iteration (FPI) associated with the contraction mapping theorem. Unlike the predistorter based on the FPI already presented by the authors in other literatures which operates on complex-valued modulation signals, the proposed predistorter in this paper deals with real-valued FPI on modulation signal amplitudes, resulting in less complexity. Simulation results on a BPSK-modulated, 64-subcarrier synchronous MC-CDMA baseband system with a traveling wave tube amplifier in the transmitter, indicate that the proposed predistorter achieves significant improvement in terms of bit error rate and total degradation over those without the predistorter. Moreover, the proposed predistorter outperforms the complex-valued counterpart, in particular, for small output back-off levels.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.2 s.314
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• pp.32-38
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• 2007

This paper represents a Doherty amplifier (DPA) with analog predistorter (PD) to improve the linearity of the DPA while preserving the high efficiency. A third-order PD cancels fifth-order intermodulation (IM5) as well as third-order intermodulation (IM3) components by their same phase difference in the PD and DPA. This is accomplished by independently controlling their phase by using the phase-controlled error generator in the PD. Also, we confirm the phase-control ability of the error generator experimentally with a simple and accurate phase measurement setup. For experimental verification, a third-order PD has been implemented and tested in a 180-W DPA at the wide-band code division multiple access (WCDMA) band of 2.11-2.17 GHz. Two-tone test results show that significant cancellation of IM3 and IM5 components can be obtained. For four-carrier WCDMA applications, significant adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) improvement is achieved over a wide range of output power levels. This technique is cost-effective and convenient due to its simple structure, compact size, and three control parameters.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.65-71
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• 2007

Doherty amplifier has more efficiency and distortion than general amplifier. These distortion classified amplitude distortion and phase distortion, memory effect distortion. This paper reports on an attempt to investigate, model and quantity the contribution of the electrical nonlinearity effects and the thermal memory effects to a doherty amplifier's distortion generation and suggests thermal memory effect compensator for pre-distorter. Also this paper reports on the development of an accurate dynamic expression of the instantaneous junction temperature as a function of the instantaneous dissipated power. The parameters of suggested model suppress thermal memory effects doherty amplifier with pre-distorter. Pre-distorter with electrothermal memory effect compensator for doherty amplifier enhanced ACLR performance about 22 dB than general doherty amplifier. Experiment results were mesured by 50W LDMOS Doherty amplifier and pre-distorter with electrothermal memory effect compensator was simulated by ADS.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.202-205
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 IMT-2000용 고전력 중폭기에 사용할수 있근 전치 왜곡기를 feedback 방식을 이용하여 설계하였다. 여기서 feedback 방식을 사용함으로써 기존의 전치 왜곡기와는 달리 증폭기의 이득을 조절하기 위해 감쇄기를 사용하지 않고 feedback에 사용한 저항값을 사용하여 이득을 조절하도록 설계하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.10
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• pp.827-833
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• 2012

The receiver performance is degraded by nonlinear memory problem in communication system. The pre-distorter techniques are an effective technique to compensate for the nonlinear distortion of the HPA without memory effects. However, memory effect of HPA can no longer be ignored when data signal is transmitted in high speed. Many adaptive pre-distorter schemes have been studied to compensate for memory effect problem of HPA in transmitter. The complexity and cost of satellite will increase when using adaptive pre-distorter in satellite communication system. In this paper, we propose receiver feedback closed loop pre-distortion technique in order to compensate for nonlinear problem of HPA with memory problem. The purpose of this paper is to reduce complexity and cost of satellite design by using only pre-distorter at terrestrial station.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.307-314
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• 2011

A new predistortion technique for dynamic spectrum allocation systems such as cognitive radio (CR) is proposed. The system model considered in this paper occupies a small band at a time, but the center frequency can be changed in the wide range of frequency. In this scenario. the front-end filter may not eliminate the harmonics of the power amplifier (PA) output. The proposed PD reduces the spectral regrowth of the fundamental signal at the carrier frequency (${\omega}_0$) and removes the harmonics ($2{\omega}_0$, $3{\omega}_0$, ...) at the same time. The proposed PD structure is composed of multiple predistorters (PDs) centered at integer multiples of ${\omega}_0$. The PD at ${\omega}_0$ is for removing spectral regrowth of the fundamental signal, and the others are for harmonic reduction. In the proposed PD structure, parameters of PDs are found jointly. Simulation results show that the spectral regrowth can be reduced by 20dB, and the 2nd and 3rd harmonics can be reduced down to -70dB from the power of the fundamental signal.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.1102-1109
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• 2001

This paper presents the new architecture of an adaptive predistortion linearizer using the polynomial type predistorter. In the proposed linearizer, most of the processes, including the predistortion, are performed with a digital signal processor(DSP). The recursive least squares(RLS) algorithm is employed for the optimization process to minimize the errors between the predistorter and postdistorter output signals. Simulation results demonstrate that the adjacent channel power ratio(ACPR) is improved by greater than 40 dB at the band edge with linearization. The convergence and reconvergence performance of the linearizer is also satisfactory.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.1428-1436
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• 2000

An adaptive predistorter linearizer suitable for the DSP implementation is proposed. Predistortion is performed by the DSP instead of the analog predistorter. RLS algorithm is employed for the optimization process to minimize the errors between the predistorter and postdistorter output signals. Computer simulation results for our linearizer show good performance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.802-809
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• 2001

A linear power amplifier for the VHF frequency-hopping(FH) transmitter using an adaptive predistortion linearizer is designed. An analog polynomial linearizer as predistorter is employed. The recursive least square(RLS) algorithm is employed in the optimization process to minimize the errors between the predistorter and postdistorter output signals. Experimental results show that the adjacent channel power of the designed power amplifier is reduced by of 10 dB.