171results about "Memory effect compensation" patented technology

The present disclosure is a novel utility of a software defined radio (SDR) based Distributed Antenna System (DAS) that is field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation-independent), multi-carriers, multi-frequency bands and multi-channels. The present disclosure enables a high degree of flexibility to manage, control, enhance, facilitate the usage and performance of a distributed wireless network such as flexible simulcast, automatic traffic load-balancing, network and radio resource optimization, network calibration, autonomous / assisted commissioning, carrier pooling, automatic frequency selection, frequency carrier placement, traffic monitoring, traffic tagging, pilot beacon, etc. As a result, the SDR DAS can increase the efficiency and traffic capacity of the operators' wireless network.

An embodiment of the invention is a system for signal processing in preparation for wireless transmission, the wireless transmission being from a portable wireless communication device and including use of a power amplifier having nonlinear characteristics. The system includes memory for storing digitally-indexed information. The digitally-indexed information models nonlinear characteristics of the power amplifier, and the digitally-indexed information is stored prior to processing of a first signal that reflects information to be communicated. The system further includes first logic, configured to accept the first signal and to retrieve, based on the first signal, a portion of the digitally-indexed information stored in the memory, and second logic, configured to generate a second signal based on the portion of the digitally-accessed information and on the first signal. The second signal pre-compensates for the nonlinear characteristics of the power amplifier, and the second signal is for wireless transmission based on the second signal.

A system for digitally linearizing the nonlinear behaviour of RF high efficiency amplifiers employing baseband predistortion techniques is disclosed. The system provides additive or multiplicative predistortion of the digital quadrature (I / Q) input signal in order to minimize distortion at the output of the amplifier. The predistorter uses a discrete-time polynomial kernel to model the inverse transfer characteristic of the amplifier, providing separate and simultaneous compensation for nonlinear static distortion, linear dynamic distortion and nonlinear dynamic effects including reactive electrical memory effects. Compensation for higher order reactive and thermal memory effects is embedded in the nonlinear dynamic compensation operation of the predistorter in an IIR filter bank. A predistortion controller periodically monitors the output of the amplifier and compares it to the quadrature input signal to compute estimates of the residual output distortion of the amplifier. Output distortion estimates are used to adaptively compute the values of the parameters of the predistorter in response to changes in the amplifier's operating conditions (temperature drifts, changes in modulation input bandwidth, variations in drive level, aging, etc). The predistortion parameter values computed by the predistortion controller are stored in non-volatile memory and used in the polynomial digital predistorter. The digital predistortion system of the invention may provide broadband linearization of highly nonlinear and highly efficient RF amplification circuits including, but not limited to, dynamic load modulation amplifiers.

A RF-digital hybrid mode power amplifier system for achieving high efficiency and high linearity in wideband communication systems is disclosed. The present invention is based on the method of adaptive digital predistortion to linearize a power amplifier in the RF domain. The power amplifier characteristics such as variation of linearity and asymmetric distortion of the amplifier output signal are monitored by the narrowband feedback path and controlled by the adaptation algorithm in a digital module. Therefore, the present invention could compensate the nonlinearities as well as memory effects of the power amplifier systems and also improve performances, in terms of power added efficiency, adjacent channel leakage ratio and peak-to-average power ratio. The present disclosure enables a power amplifier system to be field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation agnostic), multi-carriers and multi-channels. As a result, the digital hybrid mode power amplifier system is particularly suitable for wireless transmission systems, such as base-stations, repeaters, and indoor signal coverage systems, where baseband I-Q signal information is not readily available.

A remote radio head unit (RRU) system for achieving high efficiency and high linearity in wideband communication systems is disclosed. The present invention is based on the method of adaptive digital predistortion to linearize a power amplifier inside the RRU. The power amplifier characteristics such as variation of linearity and asymmetric distortion of the amplifier output signal are monitored by a wideband feedback path and controlled by the adaptation algorithm in a digital module. Therefore, embodiments of the present invention can compensate for the nonlinearities as well as memory effects of the power amplifier systems and also improve performance, in terms of power added efficiency, adjacent channel leakage ratio and peak-to-average power ratio. The present disclosure enables a power amplifier system to be field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation agnostic), multi-carriers, multi-frequency bands and multi-channels. As a result, the remote radio head system is particularly suitable for wireless transmission systems, such as base-stations, repeaters, and indoor signal coverage systems.

A remote radio head unit (RRU) system for multiple operating frequency bands, multi-channels, driven by a single or more wide band power amplifiers. More specifically, the present invention enables multiple-bands RRU to use fewer power amplifers in order to reduce size and cost of the multi-band RRU. The present invention is based on the method of using duplexers and / or interference cancellation system technique to increase the isolation between the transmitter signal and receiver signal of the RRU.

An efficient baseband predistortion linearization method for reducing the spectral regrowth and compensating memory effects in wideband communication systems using effective multiplexing modulation technique such as wideband code division multiple access and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing is disclosed. The present invention is based on the method of piecewise pre-equalized lookup table based predistortion, which is a cascade of a lookup table predistortion and piecewise pre-equalizers, to reduce the computational complexity and numerical instability for desired linearity performance with memory effects compensation for wideband transmitter systems. Therefore, the present invention could reduce the computational load, which saves hardware resources in an implementation and improve performance, in terms of adjacent channel power ratio.

Digital predistortion system, methods and circuitry for adapting a predistortion system linearizing a non-linear element. The system is a multiply partitioned architecture that addresses long or “memory” effects, and separately addresses shorter duration effects. In a preferred method, the non-linear element is first modeled in software as a nonlinearity and a linearity in cascade form, preferably a Wiener model. The model is validated and adapted to minimize an observed error between the model and the non-linear element. The software model of the non-linear element is then used first to model a predistortion block that addresses short duration effects, and second to separately model a predistortion block that addresses longer duration effects. The models are software executable by an external processor in real time. Periodically the models are executed and used to update the adaptive parameters of the predistortion system without interrupting the system operation.

System and methods for a digital linearization of a non linear element. Digital predistortion methods and circuitry for linearizing a non-linear element that address long or “memory” effects and shorter duration effects, these two predistortion functions are operated together in an adaptive fashion with the non-linear element to provide a highly linear system. A short duration predistortion block comprises an Nth order polynomial filter coupled to a programmable linear equalizer. The Nth order filter includes programmable non-linearities and variable delay taps. The Nth order filter may be configured to implement a non-sequential or a sequential ordered polynomial. The equalizer may, in a preferred embodiment, include circuitry for equalizing imbalances between real and complex signal values. The Nth order filter may implement a compound Volterra filter. The combined system of the predistortion circuitry and a non-linear element has a linear input-output signal response. Methods for initializing, parameterizing and adapting the system are disclosed.

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for modeling and estimating the characteristics of a power amplifier with memory. A predistortion module generates a predistorted signal in response to coefficients of a complex polynomial representative of the amplifier and to an input signal. A power amplifier receives time-spaced samples of the predistorted signal and generates an output signal. A polynomial module updates the coefficients of the complex polynomial in response to a current sample of the output signal and to the time-spaced samples of the predistorted signal. In particular, the complex polynomial is implemented with both even and odd terms.

A Dynamic Digital Pre-Distortion (DDPD) system is disclosed to rapidly correct power amplifier (PA) non-linearity and memory effects. To perform pre-distortion, a DDPD engine predistorts an input signal in order to cancel PA nonlinearities as the signal is amplified by the PA. The DDPD engine is implemented as a composite of one linear filter and N-1 high order term linear filters. The bank of linear filters have programmable complex coefficients. To compute the coefficients, samples from the transmit path and a feedback path are captured, and covariance matrices A and B are computed using optimized hardware. After the covariance matrices are computed, Gaussian elimination processing may be employed to compute the coefficients. Mathematical and hardware optimizations may be employed to simplify and reduce the number of multiplication operands and other operations, which can enable the DDPD system to fit within a single chip.

A memory effect distortion component compensating unit compensates for a distortion component caused by the memory effect of the amplifier by using a time difference of results from raising an input signal to even power. For example, the amplifier may include a memory effect distortion component compensating unit having an even power raising means for raising an input signal to even power, an even power raising result delaying unit for delaying a signal of a result of even power raising, an even power raising result time difference detecting unit for detecting a difference between a signal of an even power raising result and a delayed signal, an input signal multiplying unit for multiplying a signal of a detection result by an input signal, a distortion compensation coefficient multiplying unit for multiplying a signal of a multiplication result by a distortion compensation coefficient, and a distortion compensation coefficient multiplication result adding unit for adding an input signal and a signal of a multiplication result.

An adaptive Digital Pre-distortion System and a method for correcting especially power amplifier memory effects. In particular, the invention relates to an electronic circuit, for amplifying an input signal, comprising: a clipping unit for generating a signal, having a reduced peak-to-average power ratio by clipping the input signal; a pre-distorter for generating a pre-distorted signal, defined by an pre-distortion algorithm which is based on the amplifier model function; a representation unit for representing the amplifier model function; a non-linear processing unit, in particular a power amplifier, for generating a processed signal, in particular by amplifying said received pre-distorted signal; a time delay unit for compensating the processing time for the pre-distorted signal generating the delayed pre-distorted signal; and a time delay cascade for delaying the said delayed pre-distorted signal, at the integer sample clocks generating the signals.

Digital predistortion (“DPD”) of an RF power amplifier for signals comprising two widely spaced carrier clusters is proposed. The basis waveforms within the DPD are selected to allow for the use of a lower sampling rate. As one example, multi-carrier signals spanning 60 MHz of bandwidth may be linearized using a sample rate of 100 MHz for the DPD module and the observation path, as opposed to a sample rate exceeding 300 MHz (5 times Nyquist) used conventionally. A transmit (Tx) filter is located after the power amplifier to attenuate distortion modes exceeding the sampling rate used.

A system and method for remotely monitoring, communicating with, and reconfiguring power amplifier systems. A communications link is provided in field-deployed PA systems, for enabling remote communication with appropriate digital components such as microprocessors or other communications-capable portions of the power amplifier systems. The communications link permits operating parameters of the PA to be monitored and sent back to a remote terminal such as a web server or other computer mainframes via any suitable wired or wireless connection including internet, Ethernet, wireless, WiFi, WiMAX, cellular, local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), Bluetooth, and so forth. The communication is bi-directional, so that the remote host can download to the PA updates, cMobile operators and / or other service providers can reduce significant operating and capital expenses related to their radio networks maintenance and PA replacement by practicing this invention.

It is intended to increase the efficiency of a distortion compensation amplification device having a pre-distorter 1. Level detecting means 11 detects a signal level, correspondence storage means 12 outputs a distortion compensation coefficient depending on the signal level, pre-distortion executing means 13 gives distortion with an inverse characteristic to the signal, filtering means 8 outputs a distortion component from a feedback signal output from an amplifier 4, and correspondence acquiring means 14 updates a learning coefficient constituting a function that gives the inverse characteristic so as to reduce the distortion component. The function that gives the inverse characteristic is expressed using a set of orthogonal polynomials. Each orthogonal function is the total sum of products of functions of the input signal and parameters, and the parameter values are set to cause the orthogonal functions to be orthogonal to each other when functions, which are obtained by applying a filter having the same characteristic as that of the filtering means 8 to the functions of the input signal, are replaced for the functions of the input signal constituting the orthogonal functions.

To provide a predistorter compensating for distortion generated at an amplifier by inputting a signal to be inputted to the amplifier constituting an object of compensating for the distortion and previously providing the distortion to the input signal. Amplifier replica means is provided with an input / output characteristic the same as an input / output characteristic of an amplifier or an input / output characteristic approximated thereto and inputs a signal to output. Difference detecting means detects a difference between an input signal to a predistorter and an output signal from the amplifier replica means. Amplifier replica input signal changing means changes a signal inputted to the amplifier replica means such that the difference detected by the difference detecting means is reduced. Change signal outputting means outputs a signal changed by the amplifier replica input signal changing means to the amplifier.

An apparatus and method for eliminating the spurious signal of a non-linear amplifier in a base station transmitter of a mobile communication system are provided. A digital predistorter includes first and second predistorters, each having a memoryless non-linearity part using a look-up table and a memory non-linearity part using an finite impulse response (FIR) filter. The first predistorter adaptively updates the look-up tables, while the second predistorter adaptively updates the filtering coefficients of the FIR filters. According to another embodiment of the present invention, a digital predistorter has a memoryless non-linearity part using a look-up table and a memory non-linearity part using an FIR filter, and adaptively updates the look-up table and the filtering coefficients of the FIR filter.

The present disclosure is a novel utility of a software defined radio (SDR) based Distributed Antenna System (DAS) that is field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation-independent), multi-carriers, multi-frequency bands and multi-channels. The present disclosure enables a high degree of flexibility to manage, control, enhance, facilitate the usage and performance of a distributed wireless network such as flexible simulcast, automatic traffic load-balancing, network and radio resource optimization, network calibration, autonomous / assisted commissioning, carrier pooling, automatic frequency selection, frequency carrier placement, traffic monitoring, traffic tagging, pilot beacon, etc.

Distortion compensation coefficients for correcting distortion of a transmission power amplifier are stored in a memory beforehand, a distortion compensation coefficient conforming to powers or amplitudes of a present transmit signal and a past transmit signal is read out of the memory, and distortion compensation processing is applied to the transmit signal using this distortion compensation coefficient. The transmit signal thus subjected to distortion compensation processing is then amplified by the transmission power amplifier and the amplified signal is transmitted, and the distortion compensation coefficient is updated based upon the transmit signal before distortion compensation and an output signal from the transmission power amplifier.