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Digital predistorter for a wideband power amplifier and adaptation method

  • US 20040179629A1
  • Filed: 12/24/2003
  • Published: 09/16/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A digital predistortion apparatus for predistorting an input digital signal to compensate for memoryless and memory non-linearities of a wideband power amplifier, comprising:

  • a first predistorter for receiving the digital signal, the first predistorter being connected to the power amplifier through a digital to analog converter (DAC) and a frequency upconverter and including a first memoryless non-linearity part for compensating for the memoryless non-linearity using a first look-up table (LUT) and a first memory non-linearity part for compensating for the memory non-linearity using a first finite impulse response (FIR) filter; and

    a second predistorter for receiving an feedback signal from the power amplifier through a frequency downconverter and an analog to digital converter (ADC), the second predistorter including a second memoryless non-linearity part for compensating for the memoryless non-linearity using a second LUT having the same values as the first LUT and a second memory non-linearity part for compensating for the memory non-linearity using a second FIR filter having the same filtering coefficients as the first FIR filter, wherein the first predistorter directly updates the first LUT and the second predistorter indirectly updates the first FIR filter using the second FIR filter.

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