Dual-Band Volterra Series Digital Pre-Distortion for Envelope Tracking Power Amplifiers

This letter presents a new dual band Volterra-based model suitable for the linearization of envelope tracking (ET) power amplifiers (PAs) driven concurrently with two widely spaced modulated signals. The model has two modules: a dual-band baseband equivalent Volterra series to compensate for the dynamic nonlinear distortions associated with the PA (assuming a constant drain supply voltage) and a polynomial term added to mitigate the distortions introduced by a dynamic drain supply modulation. The proposed model was successfully applied to linearize a 10 W and a 45 W dual band ET PA concurrently driven with different arrangements of two signals modulated according to wideband code division multiple access and long-term evolution standards around 2.0 and 2.2 GHz, and 2.1 and 2.9 GHz. A measured error vector magnitude of 1.5% and an adjacent channel power ratio better than -47 dBc, demonstrated the excellent linearization capacity of the proposed dual-band ET Volterra digital pre-distortion scheme.