Joint mitigation of power amplifier and I/Q modulator impairments in broadband direct-conversion transmitters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 730-739

  Anttila, Lauri ^a   Handel, Peter ^b   Valkama, Mikko ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Digital predistortion (PD); Direct conversion radio; I Q modulator; In phase and quadrature (I Q) imbalance; Local oscillator (LO) leakage; Mirror frequency interference (MFI); Power amplifier (PA); Spectral regrowth

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; DIRECT CONVERSION; DIRECT-CONVERSION RADIO; I/Q MODULATOR; IN-PHASE; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; MIRROR-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; SPECTRAL REGROWTH;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; DIGITAL RADIO; MIRRORS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MODULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADIO BROADCASTING; TRANSMITTERS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 77951188991     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2041579     Document Type: Article

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