Radio with a distortion compensation capability

• US 7,197,286 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2003
• Issued: 03/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Maniwa, Toru, Ode, Takayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, NGUYEN THANH
• Application Number:
  US10/371,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20040198263A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,496 Days
• Field of Search: 4551141-1143, 455/126, 4551271-1272, 375296-297, 330/149
• US Class Current: 455/114.3
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/3258 based on polynomial terms
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 2201/3233 Adaptive predistortion using lookup table, e.g. memory, RAM, ROM, LUT, to generate the predistortion
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0475 with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion H04B1/0483 takes precedence

Abstract

A radio comprises a power amplifier for amplifying a signal to be transmitted; a distortion compensation table storing distortion compensation coefficients for compensating a distortion of the power amplifier; a computing unit for updating the distortion compensation coefficient based on a difference between a transmission input signal and a transmission output signal; a bias voltage controller for applying a bias voltage to the power amplifier, said bias voltage determined based on a transmit control signal so as to maximize a power efficiency of the power amplifier.

Claims

1. A radio comprising:

a power amplifier for amplifying a signal to be transmitted;

a distortion compensator for compensating a distortion of the power amplifier, said distortion compensator having

a distortion compensation coefficient update part for updating distortion compensation coefficients based on a difference between a transmission input signal input to the power amplifier and a feedback signal of a transmission output signal output from the power amplifier,

a memory part for storing said distortion compensation coefficients, and

a distortion compensation coefficient multiplier for reading out the distortion compensation coefficient from said memory part according to a level of a transmission input signal and multiplying said transmission input signal by said distortion compensation coefficient; and

a bias voltage controller for determining a bias voltage of the power amplifier based on the level of the transmission input signal or a transmit power control signal so as to substantially maximize power efficiency of the power amplifier over a whole operational area thereof while meeting a specification as to an Adjacent Channel Leakage power Ratio (ACLR).

2. The radio according to claim 1, wherein,

the bias voltage controller reads out the bias voltage that substantially maximizes power efficiency of the power amplifier from a memory device.

3. The radio according to claim 1, wherein,

the memory part stores the distortion compensation coefficients, each of the distortion compensation coefficients being associated with a level of the transmission input signal and a level of the bias voltage, and

the distortion compensation coefficient multiplier reads out the distortion compensation coefficient from the memory part according to a level of the transmission input signal and multiplies a transmission input signal by said read out distortion compensation.

4. The radio according to claim 1, wherein,

the bias voltage controller smoothes a change of the bias voltage of the power amplifier.

5. The radio according to claim 4, wherein,

the bias voltage controller applies the bias voltage to the power amplifier via a low-pass filter.

6. A radio comprising:

a power amplifier for amplifying a signal to be transmitted;

a distortion compensator for compensating a distortion of the power amplifier, said distortion compensator having

a distortion compensation coefficient update part for updating distortion compensation coefficients based on a difference between a transmission input signal input to the power amplifier and a feedback signal of a transmission output signal output from the power amplifier,

a memory part for storing said distortion compensation coefficients, and

a distortion compensation coefficient multiplier for reading out the distortion compensation coefficient from said memory part according to a level of a transmission input signal and multiplying said transmission input signal by said distortion compensation coefficient;

a bias voltage controller for determining a bias voltage of the power amplifier based on the level of the transmission input signal or a transmit power control signal so as to improve power efficiency of the power amplifier;

a signal divider for dividing a distortion compensated transmission input signal into a transmission input signal and a distortion compensation signal by subtracting the transmission input signal from the distortion compensated transmission input signal;

digital-to-analog converters for digital-to-analog converting the transmission input signal and distortion compensation signal separately; and

a signal combiner for combining the transmission input signal and the distortion compensation signal to generate the transmission input signal to be input to the power amplifier.

7. The radio according to claim 6, further comprising:

a limit-over detector configured to determine whether the level of the transmission input signal just before being input to the power amplifier exceeds a predetermined threshold value or not;

a gain setting section for setting a gain that increases the level of the feedback signal if the predetermined threshold value is exceeded.

8. The radio according to claim 6, further comprising:

a calculator for calculating a transmit power based on an amplitude of a distortion uncompensated transmission input signal; and

a transmit power corrector for correcting transmit power based on a difference between the transmit power control signal and an output signal of the calculator.

9. The radio according to claim 6, further comprising:

a calculator for calculating a transmit power based on an amplitude of a distortion compensated transmission input signal; and

a transmit power corrector for correcting transmit power based on a difference between the transmit power control signal and an output signal of the calculator.

10. A radio comprising:

a power amplifier for amplifying a signal to be transmitted;

a distortion compensator for compensating a distortion of the power amplifier, said distortion compensator having

a distortion compensation coefficient update part for updating distortion compensation coefficients based on a difference between a transmission input signal input to the power amplifier and a feedback signal of a transmission output signal output from the power amplifier,

a memory part for storing said distortion compensation coefficients, and

a distortion compensation coefficient multiplier for reading out the distortion compensation coefficient from said memory part according to a level of a transmission input signal and multiplying said transmission input signal by said distortion compensation coefficient; and

a bias voltage controller for determining a bias voltage of the power amplifier based on the level of the transmission input signal or a transmit power control signal so as to improve power efficiency of the power amplifier, wherein,

the distortion compensated transmission input signal is input to the power amplifier via a delay element so that the input of the distortion compensated transmission input signal is timed to the setting of the bias voltage.

11. The radio according to claim 10, wherein,

a delay amount at the delay element is determined according to a level of a transmission input signal.

12. The radio according to claim 11, wherein,

the delay amount is read out from the memory part storing delay amount data associated with a level of a transmission input signal.

13. The radio according to claim 10, further comprising:

a calculator for calculating a transmit power based on an amplitude of a distortion uncompensated transmission input signal; and

a transmit power corrector for correcting transmit power based on a difference between the transmit power control signal and an output signal of the calculator.

14. The radio according to claim 10, further comprising:

a calculator for calculating a transmit power based on an amplitude of a distortion compensated transmission input signal; and

a transmit power corrector for correcting transmit power based on a difference between the transmit power control signal and an output signal of the calculator.