Open AccessGeneralised two‐box cascaded Hammerstein‐like digital predistorter for wide‐band RF power amplifiers
Author(s) -
Xu Gaoming,
Liu Taijun,
Ye Yan,
Li Jun,
Ghannouchi Fadhel M.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
ISSN - 1350-911X
DOI - 10.1049/el.2015.3379
Subject(s) - amplifier , predistortion , electronic engineering , power (physics) , computer science , electrical engineering , engineering , telecommunications , physics , bandwidth (computing) , quantum mechanics
A generalised two‐box cascaded Hammerstein‐like (GTBC‐H) digital predistorter is proposed for linearising wide‐band RF power amplifiers (PAs). The GTBC‐H predistorter is composed of a static nonlinearity block for countervailing the strong static nonlinearities and a dynamic nonlinearity block for compensating the memory effects of RF PAs. The proposed predistorter adds extended cross‐terms of the leading terms and some lagging envelope terms in the dynamic nonlinearity block to compensate the memory effects of wide‐band RF PAs more effectively. A 460 MHz and a 1.94 GHz Doherty RF PA are utilised to validate the performance of the proposed predistorter when a three‐carrier wide‐band CDMA and a single‐carrier long‐term evaluation signal are applied separately. The validation results illustrate that the proposed GTBC‐H predistorter can further suppress the residual out‐of‐band emission over the augmented Hammerstein, the enhanced Hammerstein and the parallel‐LUT‐MP‐EMP predistorter.