Synergetic crest factor reduction and baseband digital predistortion for adaptive 3G doherty power amplifier linearizer design

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2602-2608

  Hammi, Oualid ^a   Carichner, Scott ^b   Vassilakis, Bill ^b   Ghannouchi, Fadhel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Powerwave Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Crest factor reduction; Digital predistorter (DPD); Linearization; Peak to average power ratio (PAPR); Power amplifier (PA); Wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; LINEARIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

ADJACENT CHANNEL POWER RATIOS; AVERAGE POWERS; BASEBAND DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; CONVENTIONAL APPROACHES; CREST FACTOR REDUCTION; CREST FACTOR REDUCTIONS; DIGITAL PRE DISTORTIONS; DIGITAL PREDISTORTER (DPD); DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIERS; INPUT POWERS; PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO (PAPR); PREDISTORTER; WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (WCDMA);

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC;

EID: 55849132635     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2004899     Document Type: Article

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