Pre-distorted transmitters operable over a wide range of frequencies including a plurality of predetermined frequency bands are provided. The transmitters include a programmable digital up-converter and a programmable digital down-converter, an ADC, a DAC, a power amplifier and at least one analog filter arranged along a transmit signal path and a feedback signal path.

A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor layer formed, on a substrate, of a nitride semiconductor; a second semiconductor layer formed, on the first semiconductor layer, of a nitride semiconductor; a source electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer; a drain electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer; a metal oxide film formed, between the source electrode and the drain electrode, on the second semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode formed on the metal oxide film. The metal oxide film includes AlO.sub.x and InO.sub.x. AlO.sub.x/InO.sub.x in the metal oxide film is greater than or equal to 3.

Power amplifiers with adaptive bias for envelope tracking applications are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an envelope tracking system includes a power amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency (RF) signal and that receives power from a power amplifier supply voltage, and an envelope tracker that controls a voltage level of the power amplifier supply voltage based on an envelope of the RF signal. The power amplifier includes a current mirror having an input that receives a reference current, an output electrically connected to the power amplifier supply voltage, and a node that outputs a gate bias voltage. The power amplifier further includes a field-effect transistor that amplifies the radio frequency signal and a first depletion-mode transistor having a gate connected to the node of the current mirror and a source connected to a gate of the field-effect transistor.

A compound semiconductor device includes: a compound semiconductor multilayer structure including a first buffer layer composed of AlN; and a second buffer layer composed of AlGaN and formed above the first buffer layer, wherein the second buffer layer contains carbon, and wherein the concentration of carbon in the second buffer layer increases with increasing distance from a lower surface of the second buffer layer toward an upper surface of the second buffer layer.

A power amplifier system front end measures both forward and reverse power associated with an RF transmit signal. A processor is configured to use measurements derived from the measured forward and reverse power output to adjust the RF transmit signal in order to compensate for one or more memory effects of the power amplifier system.

An integrative software radio embodies a single multi-radio device including functionalities that are a superset of a plurality of individual discrete radio devices includes a radio frequency transmitter that integrates transmission capabilities of a plurality of discrete transmitters such that the radio frequency transmitter is configured to generate a first amalgamated waveform that is a combination of individual waveforms, each individual waveform corresponding to the transmission capabilities of its respective one of the plurality of discrete transmitters, wherein the transmission capabilities each of the plurality of discrete transmitters comprise operating characteristics different from one or more of the other discrete transmitters, wherein a waveform of a discrete transmitter comprises an adjustable electromagnetic wavefront and a proprietary waveform generation component; and a mission module communicatively coupled to the plurality of discrete transmitters and configured to alter the wavefront of at least one of the plurality of discrete transmitters to reduce interference among the at least one of the plurality of discrete transmitters without adjusting the proprietary waveform generation component.

A predistortion circuit for a wireless transmitter includes a signal input configured to receive a baseband signal. Further, the predistortion circuit includes a predistorter configured to generate a predistorted baseband signal using the baseband signal and a select of one of a first predistorter configuration and a second predistorter configuration.

Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to transmitter systems, methods, and instructions for signal predistortion. The transmitter system includes a primary digital predistortion (DPD) layer and a secondary DPD layer. The primary DPD layer includes a DPD coefficient estimation module configured to update primary signal generation coefficients based on comparing a secondary predistorted signal (U.sub.out) with a detected feedback signal (Y.sub.out), and a primary distortion compensation processing module configured to generate a primary predistorted signal (U.sub.out′) based on the secondary predistorted signal (U.sub.out) using the updated primary signal generation coefficients. The secondary DPD layer includes a signal characteristic estimation module configured to update secondary signal generation coefficients based on comparing an input signal (S.sub.in) with the detected feedback signal (Y.sub.out), and a secondary distortion compensation processing module configured to generate the secondary predistorted signal (U.sub.out) based on the input signal (S.sub.in) using the updated secondary signal generation coefficients.

Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to transmitter systems, methods, and instructions for signal predistortion. The transmitter system includes an intermodulation distortion (IMD) filter module configured to filter a detected feedback signal (Y.sub.in) to generate a targeted filtered signal (Y.sub.out), a digital pre-distortion (DPD) coefficient estimation module configured to update signal generation coefficients based on comparing an input signal (S.sub.in) with the targeted filtered signal (Y.sub.out), and a distortion compensation processing module configured to generate a pre-distorted signal (U.sub.out) based on the input signal (S.sub.in) using the updated signal generation coefficients.

Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to transmitter systems, methods, and instructions for signal predistortion. The transmitter system includes a signal decomposition module configured to extract a low-frequency signal (S.sub.lo) and a high-frequency signal (S.sub.hi) from an input signal (S.sub.in); a distortion compensation processing module configured to generate a pre-distorted low-frequency signal (U.sub.lo) and a pre-distorted high-frequency signal (U.sub.hi) based on the received low-frequency and high-frequency signals using signal generation coefficients; a signal combining module configured to combine the pre-distorted low-frequency signal (U.sub.lo) and the pre-distorted high-frequency signal (U.sub.hi); and a signal characteristic estimation processing module configured to update the signal generation coefficients used by the distortion compensation processing module based on comparing the low-frequency signal (S.sub.lo) and the high-frequency signal (S.sub.hi) with a detected feedback low-frequency signal (Y.sub.lo) and a detected feedback high-frequency signal (Y.sub.hi).