Polar amplification transmitter distortion reduction

• US 9,344,041 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2012
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snaptrack Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Snaptrack Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Inventors: Cobley, Kevin
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hai V
• Application Number:
  US13/418,954
• Publication Number:
  US 20120264380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,526 Days
• Field of Search: 455/73, 455/1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/0222 by using a signal derived from the input signal
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/32 Modifications of amplifiers to reduce non-linear distortion by negative feedback H03F1/34
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 2200/102 A non-specified detector of a signal envelope being used in an amplifying circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 3/24 of transmitter output stages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/361 Modulation using a single or unspecified number of carriers, e.g. with separate stages of phase and amplitude modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/368 adaptive predistortion

Abstract

A method of optimizing a transmitter, the transmitter including a polar amplification stage including a main signal path and a magnitude signal path, a receiver being located with the transmitter, the method comprising: generating an amplified signal for transmission at the output of the amplifier; tuning the receiver to a frequency to reject the intended transmit signal of the transmitter; determining a characteristic of a signal detected in the receiver representing an indication of distortion in the transmitted signal; and adjusting a setting of the transmitter in dependence on the determined characteristic.

Claims

1. A method of envelope tracking by an envelope tracking transceiver, the envelope tracking transceiver including a transmitter including an envelope tracking amplification stage arranged to receive an input signal to be amplified and a power supply voltage tracking the envelope of the input signal to be amplified, and a receiver being located with the transmitter and for receiving a received signal, the method comprising:

generating an amplified signal for transmission at the output of the amplifier;

tuning the receiver to a frequency to reject the intended transmit signal of the transmitter;

generating a sequence of adjustment values during one or more periods;

generating a signal indicative of a characteristic of the received signal;

multiplying the signal indicative of the characteristic of the received signal and the generated sequence of adjustment values for each of the periods;

generating an adjustment signal based on the multiplication;

and

adjusting a setting of the transmitter in dependence on the adjustment signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the signal indicative of the characteristic of the received signal comprises generating a quality of service indicator for the received signal, and adjusting the setting of the transmitter comprises adjusting said setting in order to improve the generated quality of service indicator.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein generating the quality of service indicator comprises generating at least one of a received signal strength indicator, a signal-to-noise plus interference ratio, or a quality of service parameter dependent upon a signal-to-noise plus interference ratio.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

storing discrete values of the quality of service indicator and the generated sequence of adjusted values in at least one memory.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the adjustment signal based on the multiplication comprises:

subtracting a weighted quality of service indicator from the generated sequence for a respective period.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the adjustment signal based on the multiplication comprises:

maintaining a moving average of the weighted quality of service indicator; and

subtracting the moving average from the generated sequence for a respective period.

5. The method of claim wherein adjusting the setting in the transmitter comprises adjusting one or more of a delay in a main signal path, or a delay in the magnitude signal path.

6. The method of claim wherein the transmitter further includes a shaping function block for generating a supply voltage in dependence on the magnitude of the signal to be amplified, and wherein adjusting the setting of the transmitter comprises adjusting a setting of the shaping function block.

9. A transceiver comprising:

an envelope tracking transmitter including an envelope tracking amplification stage arranged to receive an input signal to be amplified and a power supply voltage tracking the envelope of the input signal to be amplified, wherein the envelope tracking transmitter is configured to generate an amplified signal for transmission at an output of the amplification stage; and

a receiver adapted to reject an intended transmit signal of the transmitter, wherein the receiver comprises;

a sequence generator adapted to generator a sequence of adjustment values during one or more periods;

a receiver characteristic signal generator adapted to generate a signal indicative of a characteristic of a received signal in the receiver;

a multiplier adapted to multiply the signal indicative of the characteristic of the received signal and the generated sequence of adjustment values for each of the periods;

a subtractor adapted to generate an adjustment signal based on the multiplication; and

a controller adapted to for adjust a setting of the transmitter in dependence on the adjustment signal.

10. The transceiver of claim 9, wherein the controller is adapted to adjust the setting of the transmitter in order to reduce the distortion in a transmitted signal.

11. The transceiver of claim 9, wherein the receiver characteristic signal generator is adapted to generate a quality of service indicator for the received signal in the receiver, and the controller is adapted to adjust the setting of the transmitter in order to improve the quality of service indicator.

12. The transceiver of claim 11, wherein the receiver characteristic signal generator is adapted to generate the quality of service indicator by generating one of a received signal strength indicator, a signal-to-noise plus interference ratio, or a quality of service parameter dependent upon a signal-to-noise plus interference ratio.

13. The transceiver of claim 11, further comprising:

at least one buffer adapted to store discrete values of the quality of service indicator and the generated sequence of adjusted values.

14. The transceiver of claim 9, wherein the controller is adapted to adjust the setting of the transmitter by adjusting one or more of a delay in a main signal path or a delay in a magnitude signal path.

15. The transceiver of claim 9, wherein the transmitter includes a shaping function block for generating a supply voltage in dependence on the magnitude of the input signal to be amplified, the controller being adapted to adjust the setting of the transmitter by adjusting a setting of the shaping function block.

16. The transceiver of claim 9, wherein the amplification stage comprises a radio frequency (RF) amplifier, and the input path is an RF signal path.

17. The transceiver of claim 9, wherein the subtractor is adapted to generate the adjustment signal based on the multiplication by subtracting a weighted quality of service indicator from the generated sequence for a respective period.

18. The transceiver of claim 9, wherein the subtractor is configured to generate the adjustment signal based on the multiplication by:

maintaining a moving average of the weighted quality of service indicator; and

subtracting the moving average from the generated sequence for a respective period.