Digital predistortion linearization of a GaN HEMT push-pull power amplifier for cable applications with high fractional bandwidth

This paper presents two linearization strategies for a custom-designed wideband push-pull (PP) power amplifier (PA) for wired communication applications such as, for example, cable TV. Two digital predistortion (DPD) behavioral models are proposed to meet the in-band and out-of-band linearity requir...

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Autores: Gilabert Pinal, Pere Lluis, Pérez Cisneros, José Ramón, Ren, Zhixiong, Montoro López, Gabriel, Ruiz Lavín, María de las Nieves|||0000-0002-6210-1152, García García, José Ángel|||0000-0003-3502-7628
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/29777
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/29777
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Digital predistortion
Fractional bandwidth
Push-pull power amplifier
Power efficiency
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Sumario:This paper presents two linearization strategies for a custom-designed wideband push-pull (PP) power amplifier (PA) for wired communication applications such as, for example, cable TV. Two digital predistortion (DPD) behavioral models are proposed to meet the in-band and out-of-band linearity requirements when efficiently amplifying wideband DOCSIS signals with high fractional bandwidth (FBW). A radiofrequency (RF) DPD linearizer based on a band-pass generalized memory polynomial (BP-GMP) behavioral model and a baseband (BB) I-Q DPD linearizer based on a harmonic distortion GMP (HD-GMP) behavioral model are proposed. Both DPD models take into account the harmonic distortion typical of high FBW amplification. Experimental results will show high efficient and linear amplification of a 4×192 MHz composite DOCSIS signal by properly combining a crest factor reduction (CFR) technique and the proposed DPD strategies.