Digital compensation of branches imbalance effects in LINC transmitters

Proceedings of the International Conference on Microelectronics, ICM

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 688-691

  Helaoui, M ^a   Boumaiza, S ^a   Ghazel, A ^b   Ghannouchi, F M ^a  

^a POLY GRAMES RESEARCH CENTER   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TRANSCEIVERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL COMPENSATION; DRAIN VOLTAGE; LINC TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 21644451877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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