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Transmission device with adaptive digital predistortion, transceiver with transmission device, and method for operating a transmission device

  • US 7,372,918 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2004
  • Issued: 05/13/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A transmission device with adaptive digital predistortion, comprising:

  • a processor unit for providing a first discrete-value component of a baseband signal at a first output and a second discrete-value component at a second output;

    a predistortion unit, connected to the outputs of the processor unit, having a first and a second input and having a first and a second output,wherein the predistortion unit comprises a coefficient unit for ascertaining a predistortion coefficient, representing a complex value, on the basis of a first control signal at a first control input on the coefficient unit, a level for the first component, which is applied to the first input, and a level for the second component, which is applied to the second input,wherein the predistortion unit comprises a multiplication unit for outputting an output signal, derived from the first component, and from the second component, and from the predistortion coefficient, having a third discrete value component at the first output and having a fourth discrete value component at the second output,wherein the predistortion unit comprises an adaptation unit for generating, and for transmitting to the coefficient unit, a new complex predistortion coefficient from at least one of the first component, the second component, the first control signal and a second baseband signal which is applied to a second control input and comprises a fifth component and a sixth component;

    a modulation device having a first input, which is operatively coupled to the first output of the predistortion unit, having a second input, which is operatively coupled to the second output of the predistortion unit, having a local oscillator input and having an output for providing signals;

    at least one amplification device having an input which is operatively coupled to the output of the modulation device;

    an output unit, connected to the output of the at least one amplification device, for outputting a portion of an output signal from the at least one amplifier arrangement;

    a conversion unit for converting the portion of the output signal into the second baseband signal comprising the fifth and the sixth discrete values components, having an input, which is connected to the output unit, and a first output for providing the fifth discrete value component and a second output for providing the sixth discrete value component, which are respectively coupled to one of at least two connections on the second control input of the predistortion unit;

    wherein the predistortion unit has a first and a second operating state, and in the first operating state is configured to output the first component at the first output and the second component at the second output, and in the second operating state is configured to output the third and fourth components of the derived output signal at the first and second outputs,wherein the predistortion unit can be switched to the first or to the second operating state by the first control signal at the control input, anda power control unit having an inputfor supplying a discrete-value power control signal to provide the first control signal at a first output of the power control unit, which is operatively coupled to the control input of the predistortion unit.

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