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Robust Digital Predistortion in Saturation Region of Power Amplifiers Soon-il Hong; Kwang-Pyo Lee; Eui-Rim Jeong
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 1: February 2016
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

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This paper proposes a digital predistortion (DPD) technique to improve linearization performance when the power amplifier (PA) is driven near the saturation region. The PA is a non-linear device in general, and the nonlinear distortion becomes severer as the output power increases. However, the PA’s power efficiency increases as the PA output power increases. The nonlinearity results in spectral regrowth, which leads to adjacent channel interference, and degrades the transmit signal quality. According to our simulation, the linearization performance of DPD is degraded abruptly when the PA operates in its saturation region. To relieve this problem, we propose an improved DPD technique. The proposed technique performs on/off control of the adaptive algorithm based on the magnitude of the transmitted signal. Specifically, the adaptation normally works for small and medium signals while it stops for large signals. Therefore, harmful coefficient updates by saturated signals can be avoided. A computer simulation shows that the proposed method can improve the linearization performance compared with the conventional DPD method in highly driven PAs.
Co-Authors Eui-Rim Jeong Kwang-Pyo Lee