Abstract: A digital transmitter channel optimization device can be employed within or in conjunction with a transmitter to perform a number of techniques in the digital domain to account for distortion introduced in the transmitter. The optimization device can be configured to perform such techniques on an arbitrary signal to thereby allow the optimization device to be used with virtually any transmitter. The optimization device may be particularly beneficial in wideband systems where accounting for distortion can be difficult to accomplish using existing techniques.

Abstract: The peak-to-average power ratio of an input signal can be reduced prior to amplification. This reduction in the peak-to-average power ratio can be accomplished without adding significant intermodulation distortion to the input signal. The resulting input signal can therefore have a peak-to-average power ratio that does not exceed the output backoff of the amplifier thereby preventing the amplifier from being operated in saturation and, as a result, minimizing the intermodulation distortion added by the amplifier. The peak-to-average power ratio of an input signal can be reduced using two stages of signal clipping. By employing two stages, the intermodulation distortion introduced to the input signal as it passes through the stages is minimized. Also, because this two-stage approach does not attempt to account for intermodulation distortion introduced by the downstream amplifier, it can be implemented without any prior knowledge of the amplifier's transfer function or any output monitoring scheme.