• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.08a
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• pp.296-299
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• 2003

본 논문은 IMT-2000 대역에서 동작하는 피드포워드 증폭기의 선형성 개선을 위한 각 증폭기의 이득 평탄도의 영향에 관한 것이다. 피드포워드 증폭기의 동작 특성을 조사하기 위하여 WCDMA 신호를 인가하여 최종 출력 10W에서 성능을 측정하였다. 특히, 피드포워드 증폭기의 선형성 개선에 영향을 미치는 원인 중, 각 증폭기의 이득 평탄도의 변화에 따르는 선형성의 개선 양에 대하여 조사하였다. 전력 증폭기는 40MHz, 오차 증폭기는 40MHz와 80MHz의 대역에서 이득 평탄도를 변화시키면서 선형성의 개선 양을 조사하였으며, 오프셋 5MHz 지점에서 IMSR을 측정하였다. 측정 결과. 20dB 이상의 개선 효과를 나타내기 위해서는 전력 증폭기는 1.5dB 이내, 오차 증폭기는 0.5dB 이내의 이득 평탄도를 가져야 함을 확인하였으며, 오차 증폭기의 이득 평탄도가 선형성 개선에 더 큰 영향을 미침을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.59-65
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• 1997

In this paper, a feedforward amplifier with error correction is designed and implemented. This amplifier is composed of operational amplifier, the performance of which is compared with that of the reference amplifier without feedforward error correction. As a result, the sec¬ondary harmonics level is improved about 10 [dB]. Therefore it is shown that the proposed feedforward amplifier network is to be adopted able for wide - band amplifiers.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.127-133
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• 2004

A feedforward amplifier, which is composed of several components, is an open loop system. Therefore, feedforward amplifiers are apt to deteriorate its performance according to the environmental changes even though the cancellation performance and the linearization bandwidth of feedforward systems are superior to other linearization methods. A control method is needed for maintaining the original performance of feedforward amplifiers or to keep the desired performance within a little error bounds. In this paper, an adaptive control method using the steepest descent algorithm, which has a good convergence characteristic and is easy to implement, is suggested. The characteristics of the suggested control method compare with the characteristics of other control methods and the simulation results are presented.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.5A
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• pp.497-502
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• 2007

Broadband monolithic SiGe HBT variable gain amplifier with a feedforward configuration have been newly developed to improve bandwidth and dB-linearly controlled gain characteristics. The VGA has been implemented in a $0.35-{\mu}m$ BiCMOS process. The VGA achieves a dynamic gain-control range of 19.6 dB and a 3-dB bandwidth of 4 GHz ($4{\sim}8\;GHz$) with the control-voltage range from 0.6 to 2.6 V. The VGA produces a maximum gain of 9.3 dB at 6 GHz and a output power of -3 dBm at 8 GHz.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2007

RoF 링크 시스템을 적용한 무선 근거리 통신망(IEEE 802.11b/g)의 중심 주파수 대역인 2.4 GHz에서 저가의 Febry-Perot 레이저 다이오드를 이용한 피드포워드 광송신기를 제작 및 측정 하였다. 제작된 피드포워드 광송신기의 측정 결과는 2.4 GHz에서 주신호의 간격이 10 MHz이고 크기가 -4 dBm인 입력 신호에서 피드포워드 보상기법을 적용하기 전보다 3차 상호 변조 왜곡 신호가 22.9 dB 개선되었다. 제작된 피드포워드 광송신기의 전자소자의 사양을 바탕으로 송신기 집적을 위한 RFIC회로(감쇄기, 증폭기)를 0.18 ${\mu}m$ 공정을 이용하여 설계하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.681-689
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• 2010

We will demonstrate a novel topology for the feedforward amplifier. This amplifier does not use a delay element thus providing an efficiency enhancement and a size reduction by employing a distributed element negative group delay circuit. The insertion loss of the delay element in the conventional feedforward amplifier seriously degrades the efficiency. Usually, a high power co-axial cable or a delay line filter is utilized for a low loss, but the insertion loss, cost and size of the delay element still acts as a bottleneck. The proposed negative group delay circuit removes the necessity of the delay element required for a broadband signal suppression loop. With the fabricated 2-stage distributed element negative group delay circuit with -9 ns of total group delay, a 0.2 dB of insertion loss, and a 30 MHz of bandwidth for a wideband code division multiple access downlink band, the feedforward amplifier with the proposed topology experimentally achieved a 19.4 % power added efficiency and a -53.2 dBc adjacent channel leakage ratio with a 44 dBm average output power.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.762-768
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• 2003

This paper reports the effects of gain flatness for linearity improvement of feedforward power amplifier fur IMT-2000 band. To investigate the operational characteristics for gain flatness of each amplifier, WCDMA 4FA input signal was used and measured 10 W output power. Especially, linearity improvement for variation of gain flatness of each amplifier was investigated that have an effect on linearity improvement such as delay line, phase, and amplitude imbalances. Variation of gain flatness of main amplifier is 40 MHz and of error amplifier is 40 MHz and 80 MHz bandwidth, respectively. Measured results, gain flatness of main amplifier is less than 1.5 dB and of error amplifier is less than 0.5 dB for more than 20 dB improvement at 5 MHz offset. In addition to that results, the characteristics of feedforward amplifier are drastically varied by gain flatness of error amplifier and it is shown that gain flatness of error amplifier is more important factor for linearity improvement.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.4A
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• pp.197-204
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• 2012

We propose a new scheme combining the compensation of HPA nonlinearity and the calibration of the path imperfections in the downlink OFDM smart antenna systems. We use a two term third-order polynomial (without second-order term) and the feedforward method for compensation and calibration to make each path of the antenna array have equal characteristics. Since the proposed scheme does not alter the base-band signal, it can be applied to the smart antenna system independently of the base-band signal processing section. The result of computer simulations shows that, with the addition of only one third-order term, the adverse nonlinear effects can be effectively compensated, and the those of linear imperfections can be calibrated as well.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.9-17
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• 2012

In this paper, we show the memory effect of the high-power amplifiers for wied-band signals, present a compensation method for the nonlinearity combined with memory effect, and analyze its performance. For the modeling and the compensation of the nonlinear high-power amplifier with memory effect, we investigate the Volterra series model, the Wiener model, and the Hammerstein model. As a compensator scheme, we propose a digital feedforward technique. Compared to analog feed-forward scheme, the proposed scheme has better stability and adaptability to the environmental changes. It has a simpler structure than the conventional digital nonlinear compensation schemes. The result of computer simulations using ADS of the Agilent shows that spectral re-growth is suppressed by more than 20 dB, which amounts to at least 10 dB back-off. Considering the compensation performance, implementation complexity, and convergence rate, we could conclude the Wiener model is most suitable for the proposed scheme.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.11 s.102
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• pp.1059-1066
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• 2005

This paper reports an application of Doherty amplifier for efficiency improvement of feedforward power amplifier(FPA). For performance analysis, we measured 15 W average output power using WCDMA 4FA input signal with a center frequency 2.14 GHz. The applied Doherty amplifier presents the characteristics of high efficiency and low linearity in comparison to the class AB amplifier, and it was used as main amplifier of FPA fir efficiency improvement. To analyze the change of characteristic, tow Doherty amplifiers whose linearity and efficiency are different were applied. The applied FPAs are improved about $2\%$ or more performance in efficiency, but decreased in linearity on 15 W average output power. We additionally modified the coupling factor(CF) of the error loop and the error amplifier capacity for linearity improvement. Aa a result, the efficiency improvement and high linearity resulted from the change of CF and error amplifier capacity. However, we think if the linearity of Doherty amplifier were more than 35 dBc, the FPA would improve the performance about $2\%$ or more efficiency and maintain enough linearity.