Power alignment of digital predistorters for power amplifiers linearity optimization

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 109-114

  Hammi, Oualid ^a   Ghannouchi, Fadhel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital predistortion; Look up tables; Nonlinearity; Power amplifier; Small signal gain

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TABLE LOOKUP;

ADJACENT CHANNEL POWER RATIOS; AMPLIFIER OUTPUTS; AVERAGE POWER; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; LINEARITY OPTIMIZATIONS; LINEARIZED POWER AMPLIFIERS; LOOK-UP TABLES; NONLINEARITY; NORMALIZATION FACTORS; POWER EFFICIENCIES; PRE DISTORTIONS; PREDISTORTERS; SMALL-SIGNAL GAIN;

LINEARIZATION;

EID: 61449186637     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2008.2006652     Document Type: Article

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