Digital Predistortion of Envelope Tracking Amplifiers driven by slew-rate limited envelopes

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Montoro, Gabriel ^a   Gilabert, Pere L ^a   Berenguer, Jordi ^a   Bertran, Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amplifier distortion; digital predistortion; efficiency; envelope amplifier; envelope tracking

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER DISTORTION; BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; ENVELOPE AMPLIFIER; ENVELOPE TRACKING; NON-LINEAR MEMORY EFFECTS; PREDISTORTERS; REAL SIGNALS; SLEW-RATE; TRANSMITTED SIGNAL;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 80052328899     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5972693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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