Patent classifications
H03F1/3241
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL PREDISTORTION TO MITIGATE POWER AMPLIFIER BIAS CIRCUIT EFFECTS
A digital predistortion (DPD) system includes an input configured to receive an input signal. In some examples, a first signal path configured to generate a first signal based on the input signal. In some examples, an error model provider configured to generate an error model signal modeled after a gate bias error voltage associated with the DPD system. In some examples, a first combiner configured to combine the first signal and the error model signal to generate a first intermediate signal, and the DPD system generates an output signal based at least on the first intermediate signal.
Power adjustment to align transmit chain power ratios
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. A wireless communication device may have an apparatus that aligns the non-linearity between transmit chains of the wireless communication device that are driven by the same digital port. The apparatus may adjust an amplification power out or an amplification saturated power to adjust a ratio between the amplification saturated power and the amplification power out for one or more transmit chains of the wireless communication device. The apparatus may adjust the ratios of transmit chains to align the ratios of the transmit chains for more consistent management of non-linear characteristics of the chain components. Numerous other aspects are described.
RECURSIVE LINEARIZATION OF A NON-LINEAR MODEL FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE
There is provided mechanisms for enabling linearization of a non-linear electronic device. A method is performed by a linearizer device. The method comprises receiving an input signal destined to be input to the non-linear electronic device. Input-output characteristics of the non-linear electronic device is represented by a model. The model is defined by a mathematical expression, and wherein input-output characteristics of the linearizer device is given by the linearization function. The linearization function is determined by applying a function recursion to the mathematical expression of the model. The method comprises obtaining an output signal by subjecting the input signal to the linearization function. The method comprises providing the output signal, instead of the input signal, as input to the non-linear electronic device, thereby enabling linearization of the non-linear electronic device.
DATA ACQUISITION METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
The present application provides a data acquisition method, a data acquisition apparatus, a data acquisition device and a storage medium. The data acquisition method includes: obtaining a first storage flag for indicating a flag bit at which first data starts to be acquired and stored; when a first data acquisition clock is asynchronous with a second data acquisition clock, obtaining a second storage flag being a storage flag bit corresponding to the first storage flag after the first storage flag crosses from the first data acquisition cock to the second data acquisition clock, according to the first data acquisition clock and the second data acquisition clock; and performing anti-jitter processing on the second storage flag to obtain a third storage flag, and acquiring second data according to the third storage flag, a delay between the first data and the second data acquired each time is kept unchanged.
TRANSMITTER SYSTEM WITH HYBRID DIGITAL DRIFT/TRAP COMPENSATION
The present disclosure relates to a transmitter system that includes a radio frequency (RF) power amplifier (PA) and a baseband processor. The RF PA is configured to amplify an RF input signal to an RF output signal and configured to receive an analog bias adjustment signal, which is applied to correct dynamic bias errors in the RF PA caused by amplification variations that have time constants. The baseband processor, in response to an input envelope and a feedback output envelope, is configured to generate a feedback envelope error signal. Herein, the input envelope is estimated based on a baseband input signal received by the baseband processor, and the feedback output envelope is estimated based on the RF output signal. The RF input signal and the analog bias adjustment signal fed to the RF PA are generated from the baseband input signal and the feedback envelope error signal, respectively.
Optical receiver with an optically compensated amplifier control loop
An optical receiver can implement a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) to process received light using a closed loop optical pre-amplification. The optical receiver can use an average input value of the TIA to control an semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) or pre-amplification as received average signal varies. The optical receiver can include a gain controller for the TIA that can measure the TIA swing to adjust the gain of the SOA to pre-amplify received light in a closed loop control configuration.
Radio frequency amplifier implementing an input baseband enhancement circuit and a process of implementing the same
An amplifier includes an input matching network; at least one transistor; an input lead coupled to the at least one transistor; a ground terminal coupled to the transistor; an output lead coupled to the at least one transistor; an output matching circuit coupled to the output lead and to the at least one transistor; and a baseband impedance enhancement circuit having at least one reactive element coupled to the input matching network. The baseband impedance enhancement circuit is configured to reduce resonances of a baseband termination.
ENVELOPE TRACKING VOLTAGE CORRECTION IN A TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT
Envelope tracking (ET) voltage correction in a transmission circuit is provided. The transmission circuit includes a transceiver circuit and a power amplifier circuit(s). The transceiver circuit generates a radio frequency (RF) signal(s) from a time-variant modulation vector and the power amplifier circuit(s) amplifies the RF signal(s) based on a modulated voltage and provides the amplified RF signal(s) to a coupled RF front-end circuit. Herein, the transceiver circuit is configured to apply a complex filter(s) to the time-variant modulation vector and/or the RF signal(s) to compensate for a voltage distortion filter created across a modulation bandwidth of the RF signal(s) by coupling the power amplifier circuit with the RF front-end circuit. As a result, it is possible to reduce undesired instantaneous excessive compression and/or spectrum regrowth resulting from the voltage distortion filter to thereby improve efficiency and linearity of the power amplifier circuit(s) across the modulation bandwidth of the RF signal(s).
ENVELOPE TRACKING VOLTAGE CORRECTION IN A TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT
Envelope tracking (ET) voltage correction in a transmission circuit is provided. The transmission circuit includes a transceiver circuit and a power amplifier circuit(s). The transceiver circuit generates a radio frequency (RF) signal(s) from a time-variant modulation vector and the power amplifier circuit(s) amplifies the RF signal(s) based on a modulated voltage and provides the amplified RF signal(s) to a coupled RF front-end circuit. Herein, the transceiver circuit is configured to apply an equalization filter to a selected form of the time-variant modulation vector to compensate for a voltage distortion filter created across a modulation bandwidth of the RF signal(s) by coupling the power amplifier circuit with the RF front-end circuit. As a result, it is possible to reduce undesired instantaneous excessive compression and/or spectrum regrowth resulting from the voltage distortion filter to thereby improve efficiency and linearity of the power amplifier circuit(s) across the modulation bandwidth of the RF signal(s).
ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING INPUT SIGNAL OF POWER AMPLIFIER AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF
Provided is a method of processing an input signal of an amplifier in an electronic device, the method including obtaining a pre-distorter configured to pre-distort an input signal of the amplifier by using a pretrained neural network model to pre-distort the input signal of the amplifier based on signals input to and output from the amplifier, which are obtained while the amplifier operates in a plurality of different environments, and a plurality of pieces of environmental information corresponding to the plurality of different environments, obtaining an input signal for the amplifier, obtaining information about an environment of the amplifier, pre-distorting the input signal by using the pre-distorter based on the obtained environmental information to prevent an output signal in response to the input signal to be processed by the amplifier from being distorted, and inputting the pre-distorted input signal to the amplifier.