Multimode-compatible polar modulation transmission device and multimode radio communication method

• US 8,369,801 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2006
• Issued: 02/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Yoshito, Matsuoka, Akihiko, Urushihara, Tomoya
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Simon
• Application Number:
  US12/159,121
• Publication Number:
  US 20100291885A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,233 Days
• Field of Search: 455/102, 455108-113, 4551142-1143, 455126-1274, 455/91, 4551151-1152, 375295-300
• US Class Current: 455/91
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/0222 by using a signal derived from the input signal
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/3241 using predistortion circuits H03F1/3211, H03F1/3217 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0483 Transmitters with multiple parallel paths
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/0425 with linearisation using predistortion

Abstract

An object of the invention is to provide a multimode polar modulation device and a multimode radio communication method for making it possible to decrease the distortion compensation processing data capacity while maintaining the distortion compensation accuracy and also making it possible to efficiently store the distortion compensation processing data corresponding to a multimode modulation signal adaptively acquired in memory.

At the distortion compensation coefficient calibration operation time of a polar modulation circuit 1901, a control section 1903 selects a modulation signal with a narrower dynamic range of amplitude signal than at the transmission operation time, an adaptive operation control section 1711 measures a spectrum in output of a power amplifier 1 for each predetermined output level, and a distortion compensation processing circuit 1701 finds optimum coefficient information. On the other hand, at the transmission operation time, the optimum coefficient information found according to the above-mentioned procedure is referenced and the optimum coefficient information of a modulation signal with a wide dynamic range of amplitude signal is found.

Claims

1. A multimode polar modulation transmitter, comprising:

a first control section which selects a modulation system of a transmission modulation signal;

a signal generation section which generates a baseband quadrature signal according to the modulation system selected by the first control section based on transmission data;

a polar conversion section which generates an amplitude signal from the baseband quadrature signal;

an amplitude modulation section which generates an amplitude modulation signal based on the amplitude signal;

a phase modulation section which generates a phase modulation signal in a radio frequency band based on a signal containing at least a phase component of the baseband quadrature signal;

an amplification section which generates transmission data in the radio frequency band, the amplification section in which the phase modulation signal is input as an input high frequency signal and the amplitude modulation signal is input as a control signal;

a distortion compensation processing circuit which performs predetermined distortion compensation processing for at least one of the input signal to the amplitude modulation section and the input signal to the phase modulation section; and

a second control section which switches between calibration operation of compensation data used in said distortion compensation processing circuit and transmission operation,

wherein at the calibration operation time, the first control section selects a modulation system in which an amplitude dynamic range becomes equal to or less than an amplitude dynamic range of a modulation signal in the modulation system used at the transmission operation time.

2. The multimode polar modulation transmitter as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the first control section further decreases the output level monotonously in a predetermined control width at the calibration operation time.

3. The multimode polar modulation transmitter as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the distortion compensation processing circuit includes a steady state characteristic compensation circuit which linearizes an output signal in a steady state of the amplification section based on the output signal characteristic relative to the control voltage value in the steady state of the amplification section to which an input high frequency signal of a predetermined amplitude and a control voltage are input.

4. The multimode polar modulation transmitter as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the distortion compensation processing circuit further includes a first amplitude control section which adjusts the amplitude of the amplitude signal after execution of the linearizing processing of the output signal in the steady state in the steady state characteristic compensation circuit.

5. The multimode polar modulation transmitter as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the distortion compensation processing circuit further includes a second amplitude control section which adjusts the amplitude of an amplitude signal for address reference when distortion compensation processing of the amplitude signal is performed in the steady state characteristic compensation circuit.

6. The multimode polar modulation transmitter as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the distortion compensation processing circuit further includes a first phase compensation section which adjusts the amplitude of an amplitude signal for address reference when distortion compensation processing of the phase signal is performed in the steady state characteristic compensation circuit.

7. The multimode polar modulation transmitter as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the distortion compensation processing circuit further includes a second phase compensation section which adjusts the amplitude of the phase signal or the phase modulation signal.

8. The multimode polar modulation transmitter as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the distortion compensation processing circuit further includes a delay adjustment section which gives a predetermined delay amount to the amplitude signal or the phase signal and ensures synchronization between the amplitude signal and the phase signal.

9. An integrated circuit installing a multimode polar modulation transmitter as claimed in claim 1.

10. A radio communication device, comprising the integrated circuit as claimed in claim 9.

11. A radio communication system, comprising the integrated circuit as claimed in claim 9.

12. A radio communication device, comprising the multimode polar modulation transmitter as claimed in claim 1.

13. A radio communication system, comprising the radio communication device as claimed in claim 12.

14. A radio communication system, comprising the multimode polar modulation transmitter as claimed in claim 1.

15. A multimode polar modulation transmission method, comprising the steps of:

selecting a modulation system of a transmission modulation signal;

generating a baseband quadrature signal according to the selected modulation system based on transmission data;

generating an amplitude signal from the baseband quadrature signal;

generating an amplitude modulation signal based on the amplitude signal;

generating a phase modulation signal in a radio frequency band based on a signal containing at least a phase component of the baseband quadrature signal;

inputting the phase modulation signal as an input high frequency signal, inputting the amplitude modulation signal as a control signal, and generating transmission data in the radio frequency band; and

switching between calibration operation of compensation data used in a distortion compensation processing circuit which performs predetermined distortion compensation processing for at least one of the input signal to the amplitude modulation section and the input signal to the phase modulation section and transmission operation, wherein

at the calibration operation time, a modulation system wherein an amplitude dynamic range of a modulation signal becomes equal to or less than an amplitude dynamic range of a modulation signal in the modulation system used at the transmission operation time is selected.

16. A multimode radio communication method for conducting radio communications between a base station and a mobile station using the multimode polar modulation transmission method as claimed in claim 15.