Design and Comparison of Digital Predistorters for High Power Amplifiers 


Vol. 34,  No. 4, pp. 403-413, Apr.  2009


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We compare three predistortion methods to prevent signal distortion and spectral re-growth due to the high PAPR (peak-to-average ratio) of OFDM signal and the non-linearity of high-power amplifiers. The three predistortion methods are pth order inverse, indirect learning architecture and look up table. The pth order inverse and indirect learning architecture methods requires less memory and has a fast convergence because these methods use a polynomial model that has a small number of coefficients. Nevertheless the convergence is fast due to the small number of coefficients and the simple computation that excludes manipulation of complex numbers by separate compensation for the magnitude and phase. The look up table method is easy to implement due to simple computation but has the disadvantage that large memory is required. Computer simulation result reveals that indirect learning architecture shows the best performance though the gain is less than 1 dB at BER = 10-4 for 64-QAM. The three predistorters are adaptive to the amplifier aging and environmental changes, and can be selected to the requirements for implementation.

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[IEEE Style]

S. Lim and C. Eun, "Design and Comparison of Digital Predistorters for High Power Amplifiers," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 403-413, 2009. DOI: .

[ACM Style]

Sun-min Lim and Chang-soo Eun. 2009. Design and Comparison of Digital Predistorters for High Power Amplifiers. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 34, 4, (2009), 403-413. DOI: .

[KICS Style]

Sun-min Lim and Chang-soo Eun, "Design and Comparison of Digital Predistorters for High Power Amplifiers," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 403-413, 4. 2009.

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