At present what are the key points focused in the research of loop-delay estimation for the digital predistorter in the radio frequency （RF） power amplifier system is reducing its complexity of engineering realizati...At present what are the key points focused in the research of loop-delay estimation for the digital predistorter in the radio frequency （RF） power amplifier system is reducing its complexity of engineering realization and improving anti-jamming ability and computational speed. Besides, opening up its application scope should be contained. For these targets, a novel method including integer loop delay estimation and fractional part is proposed. The integer part applies amplitude-difference summation function and the fractional one adopts the method of finite impulse response （FIR） linear interpolation. The algorithm finds wide applications. What is more, strong anti-jamming ability and low complexity are also its merits. Simulation results support the above opinion. Digital predistortion （DPD） system based on this algorithm achieves good performance.展开更多
This paper proposes a concurrent neural network model to mitigate non-linear distortion in power amplifiers using a basis function generation approach.The model is designed using polynomial expansion and comprises a f...This paper proposes a concurrent neural network model to mitigate non-linear distortion in power amplifiers using a basis function generation approach.The model is designed using polynomial expansion and comprises a feedforward neural network(FNN)and a convolutional neural network(CNN).The proposed model takes the basic elements that form the bases as input,defined by the generalized memory polynomial(GMP)and dynamic deviation reduction(DDR)models.The FNN generates the basis function and its output represents the basis values,while the CNN generates weights for the corresponding bases.Through the concurrent training of FNN and CNN,the hidden layer coefficients are updated,and the complex multiplication of their outputs yields the trained in-phase/quadrature(I/Q)signals.The proposed model was trained and tested using 300 MHz and 400 MHz broadband data in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM)communication system.The results show that the model achieves an adjacent channel power ratio(ACPR)of less than-48 d B within a 100 MHz integral bandwidth for both the training and test datasets.展开更多
A digital predistorted class-F power amplifier （PA） using Cree GaN HEMT CGH40010 operating at 2. 12 GHz is presented to obtain high efficiency and excellent linearity for wideband code-division multiple access （ WC...A digital predistorted class-F power amplifier （PA） using Cree GaN HEMT CGH40010 operating at 2. 12 GHz is presented to obtain high efficiency and excellent linearity for wideband code-division multiple access （ WCDMA ） applications. Measurement results with the continuous wave （CW） signals indicate that the designed class-F PA achieves a peak power-added efficiency （PAE） of 75. 2% with an output power of 39.4 dBm. The adjacent channel power ratio （ACPR） of the designed PA after digital predistortion （DPD） decreases from -28. 3 and -27. 5 dBc to -51.9 and -54. 0 dBc, respectively, for a 4-carrier 20 MHz WCDMA signal with 7. 1 dB peak to average power ratio （PAPR）. The drain efficiency （DE） of the PA is 37. 8% at an average output power of 33. 3 dBm. The designed power amplifier can be aoolied in the WCDMA system.展开更多
To compensate for nonlinear distortion introduced by RF power amplifiers （PAs） with memory effects, two correlated models, namely an extended memory polynomial （EMP） model and a memory lookup table （LUT） model, ...To compensate for nonlinear distortion introduced by RF power amplifiers （PAs） with memory effects, two correlated models, namely an extended memory polynomial （EMP） model and a memory lookup table （LUT） model, are proposed for predistorter design. Two adaptive digital predistortion （ADPD） schemes with indirect learning architecture are presented. One adopts the EMP model and the recursive least square （RLS） algorithm, and the other utilizes the memory LUT model and the least mean square （LMS） algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that the EMP-based ADPD yields the best linearization performance in terms of suppressing spectral regrowth. It is also shown that the ADPD based on memory LUT makes optimum tradeoff between performance and computational complexity.展开更多
A robust digital predistortion(DPD)technique utilizing negative feedback iteration is introduced for linearizing power amplifiers(PAs)in long term evolution(LTE)/5G systems.Different from the conventional direct learn...A robust digital predistortion(DPD)technique utilizing negative feedback iteration is introduced for linearizing power amplifiers(PAs)in long term evolution(LTE)/5G systems.Different from the conventional direct learning and indirect learning structure,the proposed DPD suggests a two-step method to identify the predistortion.Firstly,a negative feedback based iteration is used to estimate the optimal DPD signal.Then the corresponding DPD parameters are extracted by forward modeling with the input signal and optimal DPD signal.The iteration can be applied to both single-band and dual-band PAs,which will achieve superior linear performance than the conventional direct learning DPD while having a relatively low computational complexity.The measurement is carried out on a broadband Doherty PA(DPA)with a 200 MHz bandwidth LTE signal at 2.1 GHz,and on a 5G DPA with two 10 MHz LTE signals at 3.4/3.6 GHz for validation in dual-band scenarios.展开更多
Digital PreDistortion(DPD)is a very useful method to improve the linearity of Power Amplifiers(PAs)for LTE and upcoming 5 G networks.As the spectrum resources are becoming more and more crowded,and the communications ...Digital PreDistortion(DPD)is a very useful method to improve the linearity of Power Amplifiers(PAs)for LTE and upcoming 5 G networks.As the spectrum resources are becoming more and more crowded,and the communications bandwidth are broader,the ACPR(Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio)is very important to communication systems.DPD is one of the useful means for PA to reduce ACPR.This article demonstrates what DPD is and how DPD is achieved,the measurement of the Digital Distortion of a PA using a vector generator and vector analyzer,and the measurement results has been discussed.展开更多
Nonlinear distortion is one of key limiting factors in radio over fiber (RoF) transmission systems. To suppress the nonlinear distortion, digital pre-distortion (DPD) has been investigated considerably. However, for m...Nonlinear distortion is one of key limiting factors in radio over fiber (RoF) transmission systems. To suppress the nonlinear distortion, digital pre-distortion (DPD) has been investigated considerably. However, for multi-band signals, DPD becomes very complex, which limits the applications. To reduce the complexity, many simplified DPDs have been proposed. In this work, a new multidimensional DPD is proposed, in which in-band and out-of-band distortion are separated and the out-of-band distortion is evaluated by sum and differences of all input signals instead of all individual input signals, thus complexity is reduced. An up to 6-band 64-QAM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal with each bandwidth of 200 MHz in simulations and a 5-band 20 MHz 64-QAM OFDM signal in experiments are used to validate the pro-posed DPD. The validation is illustrated in the means of power spectrum, AM/AM and AM/PM distortion, and error vector magnitude (EVM) of the received signal constellations. The average EVM improvement by simulation for 3-band, 4-band, 5-band and 6-band signals is 19.97 dB, 18.65 dB, 16.64 dB and 15.44 dB, respectively. The average EVM improvement by experiments for 5-band signals is 8.1 dB. Considering the ten times of bandwidth difference, experiments and simulation agree well.展开更多
Most satellite digital radio （SDR） systems use orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing （OFDM） transmission, which means that variable envelope signals are distorted by the RF power amplifier （PA）. It is custo...Most satellite digital radio （SDR） systems use orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing （OFDM） transmission, which means that variable envelope signals are distorted by the RF power amplifier （PA）. It is customary to back off the input power to the PA to avoid the PA nonlinear region of operation. In this way, linearity can be achieved at the cost of power efficiency. Another attractive option is to use a linearizer, which compensates for the nonlinear effects of the PA. In this paper, an OFDM transmitter conforming to European Telecommunications Standard Institute SDR Technical Specifications 2007-2008 was designed and implemented on a low-cost field-programmable gate array （FPGA） platform. A weakly nonlinear PA, operating in the L-band SDR frequency, was used for signal transmission. An adaptive linearizer was designed and implemented on the same FPGA device using digital predistortion to correct the undesired effects of the PA on the transmitted signal. Test results show that spectral distortion can be suppressed between 6-9 dB using the designed linearizer when the PA is driven close to its saturation region.展开更多
This paper proposes a combination technique of the frequency-domain random demodulation（FRD） and the broadband digital predistorter（DPD）. This technique can linearize the power amplifiers（PAs） at a low sampling ...This paper proposes a combination technique of the frequency-domain random demodulation（FRD） and the broadband digital predistorter（DPD）. This technique can linearize the power amplifiers（PAs） at a low sampling rate in the feedback loop. Based on the theory of compressed sensing（CS）, the FRD method preprocesses the original signal using the frequency domain sampling signal with different stages through multiple parallel channels. Then the FRD method is applied to the broadband DPD system to restrict the sampling process in the feedback loop. The proposed technique is assessed using a 30 W Class-F wideband PA driven by a 20 MHz orthogonal frequency division multiplexing（OFDM） signal, and a 40 W Ga N Doherty PA driven by a 40 MHz 4-carrier long-term evolution（LTE） signal. The simulation and experimental results show that good linearization performance can be achieved at a lower sampling rate with about- 24 d Bc adjacent channel power ratio（ACPR） improvement by applying the proposed combination technique FRD-DPD. Furthermore, the performance of normalized mean square error（NMSE） and error vector magnitude（EVM） also has been much improved compared with the conventional technique.展开更多
This paper proposes a low-cost hardware architecture based on concurrent dual-band digital pre-distorter （DPD）. The architecture is implemented on field programmable gate array （FPGA） to compensate for the nonline...This paper proposes a low-cost hardware architecture based on concurrent dual-band digital pre-distorter （DPD）. The architecture is implemented on field programmable gate array （FPGA） to compensate for the nonlinearity of the concurrent dual-band power amplifier （PA）. This implementation introduces a novel model complexity reduction technique into system, namely, time-division multiplexing for out-of-band lookup tables （LUTs） sharing. Performances are evaluated with an experimental test setup using a wideband class-F PA. The dual-band signal center frequency separated by 80 MHz. Lower and upper center frequency are located at 2.61 GHz and 2.69 GHz, respectively. This novel DPD implementation maintains excellent performance, but uses hardware resources reduced by 29.17% compared with conventional approaches. The results show that the adjacent channel power ratio （ACPR） is less than -59 dBc and normalized mean square error （NMSE） is around - 62dB for lower sideband （LSB） and - 63dB for upper sideband （USB）.展开更多
Purpose The high modularity and redundancy of the solid-state amplifier(SSA)facilitates its flexible output and convenient maintenance,which has made it the main radiofrequency(RF)source at the China Initiative Accele...Purpose The high modularity and redundancy of the solid-state amplifier(SSA)facilitates its flexible output and convenient maintenance,which has made it the main radiofrequency(RF)source at the China Initiative Accelerator Driven System(CiADS)and China Accelerator Facility for superheavy Elements(CAFe2).However,the nonlinear characteristics of high-power RF systems,such as SSA,reduce their potential operational efficiency and increase their operational complexity.In this study,our objective was to accurately measure the SSA nonlinearity and to develop a compensation method.Methods We utilized a field-programmable gate array(FPGA)in a low-level radiofrequency(LLRF)system to generate a sawtooth driving signal with a tunable amplitude and pulse width.We used this driving signal to measure the nonlinear characteristic curve of the SSA online,calculate the corresponding nonlinear compensation curve,and construct a digital predistortion(DPD)algorithm within the FPGA to compensate for SSA nonlinearity.Results Our results demonstrated that the DPD algorithm greatly improved the overall linearity of the RF system and thus enhanced its potential operational efficiency.We also observed that the thermal effect of the SSA had a notable impact on the measurement results and effectiveness of the compensation.展开更多
In this article, based on least square estimation, a recursive algorithm for indirect learning structure predistorter is introduced. Simulation results show that of all polynomial predistorter nonlinear terms, higher-...In this article, based on least square estimation, a recursive algorithm for indirect learning structure predistorter is introduced. Simulation results show that of all polynomial predistorter nonlinear terms, higher-order （higher than 7th-order） nonlinear terms are so minor that they can be omitted in practical predistorter design. So, it is unnecessary to construct predistorter with higher-order polynomials, and the algorithm will always be stable. Further results show that even when 15th-order polynomial model is used, the algorithm is convergent after 10 iterations, and it can improve out-band spectrum of 20 MHz bandwidth signal by 64 dB, with a 1.2×10^11 matrix condition number.展开更多
基金supported by the Circuit and System Foremost Discipline of Zhejiang Province under Grant No. ZZ050103-11
文摘At present what are the key points focused in the research of loop-delay estimation for the digital predistorter in the radio frequency （RF） power amplifier system is reducing its complexity of engineering realization and improving anti-jamming ability and computational speed. Besides, opening up its application scope should be contained. For these targets, a novel method including integer loop delay estimation and fractional part is proposed. The integer part applies amplitude-difference summation function and the fractional one adopts the method of finite impulse response （FIR） linear interpolation. The algorithm finds wide applications. What is more, strong anti-jamming ability and low complexity are also its merits. Simulation results support the above opinion. Digital predistortion （DPD） system based on this algorithm achieves good performance.
基金supported by ZTE Industry-University-Institute Cooperation Funds under Grant No.HC-CN-20220722010。
文摘This paper proposes a concurrent neural network model to mitigate non-linear distortion in power amplifiers using a basis function generation approach.The model is designed using polynomial expansion and comprises a feedforward neural network(FNN)and a convolutional neural network(CNN).The proposed model takes the basic elements that form the bases as input,defined by the generalized memory polynomial(GMP)and dynamic deviation reduction(DDR)models.The FNN generates the basis function and its output represents the basis values,while the CNN generates weights for the corresponding bases.Through the concurrent training of FNN and CNN,the hidden layer coefficients are updated,and the complex multiplication of their outputs yields the trained in-phase/quadrature(I/Q)signals.The proposed model was trained and tested using 300 MHz and 400 MHz broadband data in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM)communication system.The results show that the model achieves an adjacent channel power ratio(ACPR)of less than-48 d B within a 100 MHz integral bandwidth for both the training and test datasets.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60702163)the National Science and Technology Major Project(No.2010ZX03007-002-01,2011ZX03004-003)
文摘A digital predistorted class-F power amplifier （PA） using Cree GaN HEMT CGH40010 operating at 2. 12 GHz is presented to obtain high efficiency and excellent linearity for wideband code-division multiple access （ WCDMA ） applications. Measurement results with the continuous wave （CW） signals indicate that the designed class-F PA achieves a peak power-added efficiency （PAE） of 75. 2% with an output power of 39.4 dBm. The adjacent channel power ratio （ACPR） of the designed PA after digital predistortion （DPD） decreases from -28. 3 and -27. 5 dBc to -51.9 and -54. 0 dBc, respectively, for a 4-carrier 20 MHz WCDMA signal with 7. 1 dB peak to average power ratio （PAPR）. The drain efficiency （DE） of the PA is 37. 8% at an average output power of 33. 3 dBm. The designed power amplifier can be aoolied in the WCDMA system.
文摘To compensate for nonlinear distortion introduced by RF power amplifiers （PAs） with memory effects, two correlated models, namely an extended memory polynomial （EMP） model and a memory lookup table （LUT） model, are proposed for predistorter design. Two adaptive digital predistortion （ADPD） schemes with indirect learning architecture are presented. One adopts the EMP model and the recursive least square （RLS） algorithm, and the other utilizes the memory LUT model and the least mean square （LMS） algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that the EMP-based ADPD yields the best linearization performance in terms of suppressing spectral regrowth. It is also shown that the ADPD based on memory LUT makes optimum tradeoff between performance and computational complexity.
基金National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No.2018YFB1801603 and No.2017YFF0206201National Sci⁃ence and Technology Major Project under Grant 2017ZX03001024,NSFC under Grant No.61801259 and Beijing National Research Center for Infor⁃mation Science and Technology(BNRist).
文摘A robust digital predistortion(DPD)technique utilizing negative feedback iteration is introduced for linearizing power amplifiers(PAs)in long term evolution(LTE)/5G systems.Different from the conventional direct learning and indirect learning structure,the proposed DPD suggests a two-step method to identify the predistortion.Firstly,a negative feedback based iteration is used to estimate the optimal DPD signal.Then the corresponding DPD parameters are extracted by forward modeling with the input signal and optimal DPD signal.The iteration can be applied to both single-band and dual-band PAs,which will achieve superior linear performance than the conventional direct learning DPD while having a relatively low computational complexity.The measurement is carried out on a broadband Doherty PA(DPA)with a 200 MHz bandwidth LTE signal at 2.1 GHz,and on a 5G DPA with two 10 MHz LTE signals at 3.4/3.6 GHz for validation in dual-band scenarios.
基金supported by Shenzhen Strategic Emerging Industry Development Fund Project——Public service platform for 5G key components testing(20170921165224440)
文摘Digital PreDistortion(DPD)is a very useful method to improve the linearity of Power Amplifiers(PAs)for LTE and upcoming 5 G networks.As the spectrum resources are becoming more and more crowded,and the communications bandwidth are broader,the ACPR(Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio)is very important to communication systems.DPD is one of the useful means for PA to reduce ACPR.This article demonstrates what DPD is and how DPD is achieved,the measurement of the Digital Distortion of a PA using a vector generator and vector analyzer,and the measurement results has been discussed.
文摘Nonlinear distortion is one of key limiting factors in radio over fiber (RoF) transmission systems. To suppress the nonlinear distortion, digital pre-distortion (DPD) has been investigated considerably. However, for multi-band signals, DPD becomes very complex, which limits the applications. To reduce the complexity, many simplified DPDs have been proposed. In this work, a new multidimensional DPD is proposed, in which in-band and out-of-band distortion are separated and the out-of-band distortion is evaluated by sum and differences of all input signals instead of all individual input signals, thus complexity is reduced. An up to 6-band 64-QAM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal with each bandwidth of 200 MHz in simulations and a 5-band 20 MHz 64-QAM OFDM signal in experiments are used to validate the pro-posed DPD. The validation is illustrated in the means of power spectrum, AM/AM and AM/PM distortion, and error vector magnitude (EVM) of the received signal constellations. The average EVM improvement by simulation for 3-band, 4-band, 5-band and 6-band signals is 19.97 dB, 18.65 dB, 16.64 dB and 15.44 dB, respectively. The average EVM improvement by experiments for 5-band signals is 8.1 dB. Considering the ten times of bandwidth difference, experiments and simulation agree well.
文摘Most satellite digital radio （SDR） systems use orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing （OFDM） transmission, which means that variable envelope signals are distorted by the RF power amplifier （PA）. It is customary to back off the input power to the PA to avoid the PA nonlinear region of operation. In this way, linearity can be achieved at the cost of power efficiency. Another attractive option is to use a linearizer, which compensates for the nonlinear effects of the PA. In this paper, an OFDM transmitter conforming to European Telecommunications Standard Institute SDR Technical Specifications 2007-2008 was designed and implemented on a low-cost field-programmable gate array （FPGA） platform. A weakly nonlinear PA, operating in the L-band SDR frequency, was used for signal transmission. An adaptive linearizer was designed and implemented on the same FPGA device using digital predistortion to correct the undesired effects of the PA on the transmitted signal. Test results show that spectral distortion can be suppressed between 6-9 dB using the designed linearizer when the PA is driven close to its saturation region.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2014CB339900)the National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (2015AA016801)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61327806)
文摘This paper proposes a combination technique of the frequency-domain random demodulation（FRD） and the broadband digital predistorter（DPD）. This technique can linearize the power amplifiers（PAs） at a low sampling rate in the feedback loop. Based on the theory of compressed sensing（CS）, the FRD method preprocesses the original signal using the frequency domain sampling signal with different stages through multiple parallel channels. Then the FRD method is applied to the broadband DPD system to restrict the sampling process in the feedback loop. The proposed technique is assessed using a 30 W Class-F wideband PA driven by a 20 MHz orthogonal frequency division multiplexing（OFDM） signal, and a 40 W Ga N Doherty PA driven by a 40 MHz 4-carrier long-term evolution（LTE） signal. The simulation and experimental results show that good linearization performance can be achieved at a lower sampling rate with about- 24 d Bc adjacent channel power ratio（ACPR） improvement by applying the proposed combination technique FRD-DPD. Furthermore, the performance of normalized mean square error（NMSE） and error vector magnitude（EVM） also has been much improved compared with the conventional technique.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61201025)the National Natural Science Foundation of China for the Major Equipment Development(61327806)
文摘This paper proposes a low-cost hardware architecture based on concurrent dual-band digital pre-distorter （DPD）. The architecture is implemented on field programmable gate array （FPGA） to compensate for the nonlinearity of the concurrent dual-band power amplifier （PA）. This implementation introduces a novel model complexity reduction technique into system, namely, time-division multiplexing for out-of-band lookup tables （LUTs） sharing. Performances are evaluated with an experimental test setup using a wideband class-F PA. The dual-band signal center frequency separated by 80 MHz. Lower and upper center frequency are located at 2.61 GHz and 2.69 GHz, respectively. This novel DPD implementation maintains excellent performance, but uses hardware resources reduced by 29.17% compared with conventional approaches. The results show that the adjacent channel power ratio （ACPR） is less than -59 dBc and normalized mean square error （NMSE） is around - 62dB for lower sideband （LSB） and - 63dB for upper sideband （USB）.
基金supported by the projects of“Studies of intelligent LLRF control algorithms for superconducting RF cavities(Grant No.E129851YR0)”“National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U22A20261),”“National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12205344).”。
文摘Purpose The high modularity and redundancy of the solid-state amplifier(SSA)facilitates its flexible output and convenient maintenance,which has made it the main radiofrequency(RF)source at the China Initiative Accelerator Driven System(CiADS)and China Accelerator Facility for superheavy Elements(CAFe2).However,the nonlinear characteristics of high-power RF systems,such as SSA,reduce their potential operational efficiency and increase their operational complexity.In this study,our objective was to accurately measure the SSA nonlinearity and to develop a compensation method.Methods We utilized a field-programmable gate array(FPGA)in a low-level radiofrequency(LLRF)system to generate a sawtooth driving signal with a tunable amplitude and pulse width.We used this driving signal to measure the nonlinear characteristic curve of the SSA online,calculate the corresponding nonlinear compensation curve,and construct a digital predistortion(DPD)algorithm within the FPGA to compensate for SSA nonlinearity.Results Our results demonstrated that the DPD algorithm greatly improved the overall linearity of the RF system and thus enhanced its potential operational efficiency.We also observed that the thermal effect of the SSA had a notable impact on the measurement results and effectiveness of the compensation.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (90204001)Beijing Science and Technology Planning Project (D0104002040921)
文摘In this article, based on least square estimation, a recursive algorithm for indirect learning structure predistorter is introduced. Simulation results show that of all polynomial predistorter nonlinear terms, higher-order （higher than 7th-order） nonlinear terms are so minor that they can be omitted in practical predistorter design. So, it is unnecessary to construct predistorter with higher-order polynomials, and the algorithm will always be stable. Further results show that even when 15th-order polynomial model is used, the algorithm is convergent after 10 iterations, and it can improve out-band spectrum of 20 MHz bandwidth signal by 64 dB, with a 1.2×10^11 matrix condition number.
