• DocumentCode
    2591939
  • Title

    Digital predistortion of envelope tracking amplifiers driven by slew-rate limited envelopes

  • Author

    Montoro, Gabriel ; Gilabert, P. ; Berenguer, J. ; Bertran, Eduard

  • Author_Institution
    Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Castelldefels, Spain
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    5-10 June 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given, as follows. This paper presents a new digital predistorter (DPD) to compensate for nonlinear distortion present in Envelope Tracking (ET) Power Amplifiers (PAs) driven by slew-rate limited versions of the real signal´s envelope. Unfortunately, the use of slower versions of the real signal´s envelope generates nonlinear memory effects. This paper shows experimental results that prove that is possible to compensate for these nonlinear memory effects.
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2011 IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-754-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0149-645X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5973185
  • Filename
    5973185