Piecewise pre-equalized linearization of the wireless transmitter with a Doherty amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3469-3477

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

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR); Digital predistorter (PD); Doherty power amplifier (DPA); Finite impulse response (FIR) filter; Hammerstein; Lookup table (LUT); Memory effects; Memory polynomial

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT CHANNEL POWER RATIO (ACPR); DIGITAL PREDISTORTER (PD); DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER (DPA); FINITE-IMPULSE-RESPONSE (FIR) FILTERS; HAMMERSTEIN; LOOKUP TABLE (LUT); MEMORY EFFECTS; MEMORY POLYNOMIALS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUALIZERS; FIR FILTERS; POLYNOMIALS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 33748368732     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.880639     Document Type: Article

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