Abstract: Disclosed are digital predistortion implementations, including a method that includes collecting data for a wireless device with a transmit chain that includes at least one power amplifier that produces output with non-linear distortions, the data including data records that each includes input signal data and corresponding output signal data for the transmit chain, and with each record being associated with a set of operating conditions values, and with a variety measure representative of an extent of distinguishability of the record from other data records. The method further includes selecting at least some of the data records according to a variety criterion computed based on the variety measure for each record, computing, based on the selected records, digital predistortion parameters used to control a digital predistorter of the wireless device, and applying the digital predistorter, configured with the computed digital predistortion parameters, to subsequent input signals.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 24, 2019
Date of Patent:
September 1, 2020
Assignee:
NanoSemi, Inc.
Inventors:
Alexandre Megretski, Kevin Chuang, Yan Li, Zohaib Mahmood, Helen H. Kim
Abstract: A pre-distorter that both accurately compensates for the non-linearities of a radio frequency transmit chain, and that imposes as few computation requirements in terms of arithmetic operations, uses a diverse set of real-valued signals that are derived from separate band signals that make up the input signal. The derived real signals are passed through configurable non-linear transformations, which may be adapted during operation, and which may be efficiently implemented using lookup tables. The outputs of the non-linear transformations serve as gain terms for a set of complex signals, which are functions of the input, and which are summed to compute the pre-distorted signal. A small set of the complex signals and derived real signals may be selected for a particular system to match the classes of non-linearities exhibited by the system, thereby providing further computational savings, and reducing complexity of adapting the pre-distortion through adapting of the non-linear transformations.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 18, 2019
Date of Patent:
May 5, 2020
Assignee:
NanoSemi, Inc.
Inventors:
Alexandre Megretski, Kevin Chuang, Yan Li, Zohaib Mahmood, Helen H. Kim
Abstract: A linearization system computes a robust set of quantities characterizing a nonlinearity of a transmit chain including a power amplifier by combining a current set of quantities characterizing the nonlinearity of the transmit chain with a weighted combination of prior sets of quantities characterizing the nonlinearity of the transmit chain.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2018
Date of Patent:
March 3, 2020
Assignee:
NanoSemi, Inc.
Inventors:
Alexandre Megretski, Zohaib Mahmood, Kevin Chuang, Yan Li, Helen H. Kim
Abstract: A pre-distorter that both accurately compensates for the non-linearities of a radio frequency transmit chain, and that imposes as few computation requirements in terms of arithmetic operations, uses a diverse set of real-valued signals that are derived from the input signal. The derived real signals are passed through configurable non-linear transformations, which may be adapted during operation, and which may be efficiently, implemented using lookup tables. The outputs of the non-linear transformations serve as gain terms for a set of complex signals, which are functions of the input, and which are summed to compute the pre-distorted signal. A small set of the complex signals and derived real signals may be selected for a particular system to match the classes of non-linearities exhibited by the system, thereby providing further computational savings, and reducing complexity of adapting the pre-distortion through adapting of the non-linear transformations.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 10, 2019
Date of Patent:
December 31, 2019
Assignee:
NanoSemi, Inc.
Inventors:
Alexandre Megretski, Yan Li, Kevin Chuang, Zohaib Mahmood, Helen H. Kim
Abstract: An approach to digital compensation uses a particular structure for a digital pre-distorter (DPD) which acts as a relatively accurate pre-inverse of a non-linear circuit (e.g., a non-linear transmit chain involving digital-to-analog converter (DAC), lowpass filter, modulator, bandpass filter, and power amplifier) while making use of a relatively small number of parameters that characterize the non-linearity and/or parameters that provide accurate linearization without requiring continual updating.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 30, 2018
Date of Patent:
September 3, 2019
Assignee:
NanoSemi, Inc.
Inventors:
Helen H. Kim, Alexandre Megretski, Yan Li, Kevin Chuang, Zohaib Mahmood
Abstract: A received signal is enhanced by removing distortion components of a concurrently transmitted signal. A received signal is acquired in a receive frequency band concurrently with transmission of a transmit signal in a transmit frequency band. The received signal includes an intermodulation distortion component of the transmit signal. A representation of the transmit signal is processed using a non-linear predictor to output a distortion signal representing predicted distortion components in the received signal. The received signal is enhanced using the distortion signal by removing the predicted distortion components from the received signal corresponding to the distortion signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 18, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 27, 2018
Assignee:
NanoSemi, Inc.
Inventors:
Yanyu Huang, Zohaib Mahmood, Yan Li, Alexandre Megretski, Helen H. Kim
Abstract: Aspects and embodiments are directed to non-linear systems including a digital compensator structure, a method of digital compensation, and methods for designing digital compensator structures for analog receivers. A digital compensator is configured to substantially reduce the one or more nonlinear distortion components in the sampled digital output signal from the analog receiver to provide an output signal achieving a receiver linearity requirement for the combination of the analog receiver and a digital compensator.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 22, 2014
Date of Patent:
February 7, 2017
Assignee:
NANOSEMI, INC.
Inventors:
Helen H. Kim, Alexandre Megretski, Yan Li, Kevin Chuang