A 6.15GHz balanced linear power amplifier with digital predistortion linearization

Author

Ni, Yongqiao ; Zhou, Jianyi ; Zhang, Lei ; Zhou, Fei ; Zhai, Jianfeng

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Millimeter Waves, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a balanced power amplifier at 6.15GHz for wireless communication systems in the higher frequency band. Two final stage amplifiers are connected in parallel through two branch line hybrid couplers, to obtain good input and output VSWR performance. The digital predistortion technique is used to further improve the linearity. The measured results show that the developed PA has excellent performance. S11 and S22 of the Balanced power amplifier are both less than -15dBc. The two-tone IMD3 is less than -47dBc at output power of 27dBm. Tested by 20MHz 64-QAM, ACPR arrives at 47.1dBc and EVM is 0.6%. The digital predistortion technique is used to further improve the linear performance of the power amplifier

Keywords

linearisation techniques; microwave integrated circuits; power amplifiers; quadrature amplitude modulation; radiocommunication; 64-QAM; ACPR; VSWR; balanced linear power amplifier; branch line hybrid couplers; digital predistortion linearization; digital predistortion technique; final stage amplifiers; frequency 20 MHz; frequency 6.15 GHz; two-tone IMD3; wireless communication systems; Linearity; Power generation; Predistortion; Radio frequency; Wideband; Wireless communication; IMD3; balanced; power amplifier; predistortion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2184-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2012.6230002

Filename

6230002