• DocumentCode
    2349593
  • Title

    Nonlinearity estimation and spectral regrowth prediction of power amplifiers using correlation techniques

  • Author

    Li, M.Y. ; Galton, I. ; Larson, L.E. ; Asbeck, P.M.

  • Author_Institution
    California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    2005
  • Abstract
    Nonlinearity estimation and spectral regrowth prediction are crucial to power amplifier linearization. The correlation techniques shown here can estimate amplifier nonlinearity and predict out-of-band power spectrum. Cross-correlation is performed between the output envelope and a test sequence generated from the input signal and can be carried out in background during amplifier operations. The proposed method is applicable to multi-channel DS-CDMA systems and IS-95 forward-link CDMA signals are employed as an example.
  • Keywords
    code division multiple access; correlation methods; nonlinear estimation; power amplifiers; radiofrequency amplifiers; spread spectrum communication; telecommunication channels; IS-95 forward-link CDMA signals; correlation techniques; multichannel DS-CDMA systems; nonlinearity estimation; out-of-band power spectrum; power amplifiers; spectral regrowth prediction; Baseband; Binary sequences; Multiaccess communication; Operational amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power measurement; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless and Microwave Technology, 2005. WAMICON 2005. The 2005 IEEE Annual Conference
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8861-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WAMIC.2005.1528369
  • Filename
    1528369