Pulse or digital communications – Transmitters – Antinoise or distortion
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-01
2006-08-01
Ha, Dac V. (Department: 2634)
Pulse or digital communications
Transmitters
Antinoise or distortion
C375S297000, C455S059000, C455S063300, C455S115200, C455S126000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07085330
ABSTRACT:
A signal processing method and apparatus capable of correcting signal distortion introduced by an RF power amplifier is disclosed, which includes the use of a buffer to store a plurality of samples representing at least a portion of an input signal intended for amplification by the RF power amplifier, the use of a self-receiver to receive an output signal generated by the RF power amplifier, the use of a synchronization unit to determine, as a matching input sample, which of the stored plurality of samples corresponds most closely to the output signal, and the use of a predistortion unit to selectively apply a distortion correction function to the input signal prior to amplification by the RF power amplifier in which the distortion correction function being derived from a relationship between the matching input sample and the output signal. This permits more precise and updateable determination of the delays involved in the RF modulation and amplification stages of the amplifier and the self-receiver, thus allowing for more precise and aggressive adaptive predistortion to be used. A phase offset correction is optionally provided to correct a phase offset in the realized sample of the output signal relative to the matching input symbol. Additionally, a sampling phase error correction unit may be provided to generate sampling alteration information to an analog-to-digital converter to cause such analog-to-digital converter to selectively alter sampling of the output signal.
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Ha Dac V.
Marvell International Ltd.
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