An RF-Band Adaptive Predistorter Power Amplifier

摘要

A basestation power amplifier requires high linearity and stable operation for common amplification of a multiplexed wideband signal. Nonlinearity compensation techniques with the feedforward or predistorter are useful for this purpose. This paper presents a predistortion amplifier with automatic control at RF band for application at a basestation. In this method, the predistorter distorts an RF input signal by referring to a look-up table (LUT) corresponding to the input power. Out-of-band radiation power are directly monitored at IF band to determine the LUT. A DSP with an iterative algorithm updates the content of the LUT to minimize the out-of-band radiation power. Computer simulation experiment is carried out. The use of this proposed method promises a highly linear wideband and high power-efficiency amplifier.