Digital predistortion of a Doherty amplifier with a weak memory within a connected solution

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 2020-2023

  Kim, Wan Jong ^a   Stapleton, Shawn P ^a   Cho, Kyoung Joon ^b   Kim, Jong Heon ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Digital predistortion; Doherty power amplifiers; Electronic signal generator; Linearization; Memory effects; Vector signal analyzer

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FREQUENCIES; LINEARIZATION; MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIERS (DPA); ELECTRONIC SIGNAL GENERATORS; MEMORY EFFECTS; VECTOR SIGNAL ANALYZERS (VSA);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 17144427792     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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