Embedded system to characterize HPA and calculate nonlinear predistortion neural network´s weights for HPA

Author

Tran, Lan H. ; Mai, Trang V. ; Molnar, Joseph A.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

424

Abstract

A major concern relating to the transmission of satellite has been the linearity of available high power amplifier (HPA). Travelling wave tube amplifier (TWTA) offer the greatest efficient and power capacity, but are some limited in linearity. The paper discuss the development a synthetic instrument with most advance DSP, FPGA and very fast DAC - A/D to generate, capture and calculation for BER, EVM as stated in L.H. Tran et al. (2003).The system can configurable to calculate nonlinear pre-distortion neural network´s weights for RF power amplifier.

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; digital signal processing chips; digital-analogue conversion; embedded systems; error statistics; field programmable gate arrays; instruments; neural nets; travelling wave amplifiers; ADC; BER; BP; DAC; DSP; DVB; FPGA; OFDM; QAM; QPSK; RF power amplifier; embedded system; high power amplifier; nonlinear predistortion neural network; synthetic instrument; travelling wave tube amplifier; Digital signal processing; Embedded system; Field programmable gate arrays; High power amplifiers; Instruments; Linearity; Neural networks; Power amplifiers; Predistortion; Satellites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2004. IMTC 04. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8248-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351078

Filename

1351078