Hum Or Noise Or Distortion Bucking Introduced Into Signal Channel Patents (Class 330/149)
  • Publication number: 20120286865
    Abstract: An input signal is pre-distorted to reduce distortion resulting from subsequent signal amplification. Frequency-dependent pre-distortion is preferably implemented in combination with frequency-independent pre-distortion, where the frequency-dependent pre-distortion is generated by expanding the derivative of a product of a pre-distortion function and the input signal and then relaxing constraints on the pre-distortion function and/or on frequency-dependent filtering associated with the frequency-dependent pre-distortion. In one implementation, four different frequency-dependent pre-distortion signals are generated for the expansion using up to four different pre-distortion functions and up to four different frequency-dependent filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: ANDREW LLC
    Inventor: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
  • Publication number: 20120280749
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a non-linear amplifier system comprising a reference output generator, an adaptive filter, a amplitude distortion (AM-AM) compensator, a phase distortion (AM-PM) compensator, an adaptive spectrum controller and a non-linear system. The reference output generator may receive an input signal and generating a reference output. The adaptive filter may generate a modified input signal based on the input signal and the reference output. The AM-AM compensator may act on the modified input signal to compensate for AM-AM distortion. The phase distortion (AM-PM) compensator may act on the modified input signal to compensate for AM-PM distortion. The adaptive spectrum controller may provide parameters to the adaptive filter to minimize the power spectral density (PSD) of an output of the non-linear amplifier system in a stop-band and maximize the PSD of the output of the non-linear amplifier system in a pass-band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: The Aerospace Corporation
    Inventor: Rajendra Kumar
  • Patent number: 8305142
    Abstract: An actual linear amplifier distorts an input signal, such as an RF signal, and generates third order intermodulation (IM3) products. A single-port predistortion circuit is connected at a single node of an input line to the amplifier via an AC coupling capacitor. The fundamental frequency of the input signal is applied to a forward biased diode junction. The current through the diode is applied to a second capacitor. The appropriate setting of a tuning device, such as a tunable resistor or a tunable capacitor, causes the predistortion circuit to invert the second harmonic generated by the diode. The inverted second harmonic signal is applied to the single node of the input line to add predistortion to the signal applied to the amplifier. The predistortion cancels or substantially reduces the IM3 products at the output of the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Linear Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory A. Fung
  • Patent number: 8306490
    Abstract: A high frequency power amplifier maintains an excellent linearity regardless of a fluctuation of a load impedance and is downsized. The high frequency power amplifier detects an AC voltage amplitude at an output terminal of a final amplification stage transistor, and suppresses an input signal amplitude of a power amplifier when the voltage amplitude exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Tanoue, Hidetoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8301090
    Abstract: A digital pre-distortion system which can provide the flexibility to model the highly non-linear distortion associated with High Efficiency RF Power Amplifiers while through a novel implementation of a least squares estimation process allows an implementation well suited for an FPGA application where limited resources and in particular memory resources are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventors: Philip Brown, John Ibison, Jeremy Segar, Stephen Cooper, Frank Friedman
  • Patent number: 8299852
    Abstract: A gain control amplifier provides amplitude variation of an input signal that is coupled to the amplifier, by adding or combining a higher frequency signal that overdrives or distorts the amplifier to one or more degree(s), to provide the gain variation of the input signal. A predistortion circuit may be included to further reduce distortion of the input signal at the output of the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventor: Ronald Quan
  • Patent number: 8294516
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for reducing the distortion of power amplifiers. In particular, methods and systems are described that enable a determination of a pre-distortion correction signal to be determined, which when added to the nominal signal, a reduction in the distortion of the power amplifier results. In addition, methods and systems are described that enable calibration of individual power amplifiers to be accomplished for use with the above described approach. More specifically, the methods and systems are described for use in a MIMO application. These approaches may be applied to on-chip power amplifiers, off-chip power amplifiers, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Young, Elias Simpson
  • Patent number: 8295392
    Abstract: A digital communication system, an indoor unit, and an outdoor unit in which characteristic variation due to temperature is small are provided. The digital communication system comprises an IDU 1 and an ODU 6 connected through a cable 8, in which the IDU 1 includes a slope equalizer 2 which applies a given frequency characteristic to a baseband signal, a DAC 3 which converts the baseband signal from digital form into analog form, and an AGC circuit 5 which amplifies the baseband signal converted from digital form into analog form with a given amplification factor and outputs the signal to the ODU 6, and the ODU 6 includes a power detection circuit 7 which detects a length of the cable 8, determines a frequency characteristic to be applied to the baseband signal and an amplification factor according to the detected length of the cable 8 and notifies the determined frequency characteristic and amplification factor to the slope equalizer 2 and the AGC circuit 5 respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Taro Teramoto
  • Publication number: 20120262234
    Abstract: An amplifier is provided. The amplifier includes an input matching unit suppressing harmonic components of an input signal; a high power amplification unit amplifying a signal suppressed by the input matching unit; and an output matching unit suppressing harmonic components of an output signal amplified by the high power amplification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicants: SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY Foundation of University-Industry Cooperation, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Chong Min LEE, Chul Hun SEO
  • Patent number: 8290449
    Abstract: A feedforward error-compensated receiver for minimizing undesired odd-order nonlinear distortion products. The receiver includes a first receiver path configured to receive an input signal. The first receiver path outputs a signal including at least one baseband (BB) frequency. At least one second receiver path is configured to receive the input signal and to provide a second receiver path output signal. The second receiver path includes at least one odd-order nonlinear distortion reference generator. The at least one odd-order nonlinear distortion reference generator and the mixer are configured to generate a synthetic odd-order nonlinear distortion signal. A combining element is configured to receive the output signal from the first path and the output signal from the second receiver path output and to combine the signals such that the odd-order nonlinear distortion signals are substantially attenuated at an output of the combining element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Edward Keehr, Seyed Ali Hajimiri
  • Publication number: 20120256687
    Abstract: Coefficients of a pre-distorter are determined for correction of distortion of a signal amplified by a radio frequency amplifier by sampling the signal at the pre-distorter input to generate a plurality of input samples and sampling the signal at the amplifier output to generate a plurality of output samples, each of the output samples corresponding to one of the input samples, calculating a figure of merit for one or more of the input samples on the basis of the one or more of the input samples, selectively updating a previously selected set of input samples with said one or more input samples on the basis of the calculated figure of merit, whereby to generate an updated selected set and determining the coefficients of the pre-distorter on the basis of the input samples in the updated selected set and the corresponding output samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Rockstar Bidco LP
    Inventor: Dorian Davies
  • Publication number: 20120256688
    Abstract: Signal timing adjustment in an amplifying device is appropriately performed by phase adjustment by a digital filter. The amplifying device includes an amplifier; an amplitude-voltage converting unit 12 that performs a desired process on a signal relating to operation of the amplifier, whereby the signal is band-broadened; and a timing adjusting unit 15a that performs timing adjustment of the signal to be provided to the amplifier, by phase adjustment by a digital filter. The timing adjusting unit 15a performs the timing adjustment of the signal at a stage before the signal is band-broadened by the amplitude-voltage converting unit 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiko Onishi
  • Publication number: 20120256686
    Abstract: An apparatus and technique for operating an RF amplifier having a pre-distortion processor and a drain modulation circuit includes generating a compensating drain bias signal having a value which is a function of an RF input signal, a sampled RF output signal and a sampled drain bias signal. The compensating drain bias signal is applied to the RF amplifier. By sampling both the drain bias signal and the RF output signal and providing drain feedback and RF output feedback signals to a pre-distortion processor, RF amplifier distortions can be linearized enabling the RF amplifier to operate over a bandwidth which exceeds the bandwidth of the drain modulation circuit (i.e., the RF bandwidth can exceed the bandwidth of the drain modulator).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Auriga Measurement Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Mark A. Royer
  • Patent number: 8283977
    Abstract: A digital pre-distortion system which can provide the flexibility to model the highly non-linear distortion associated with High Efficiency RF Power Amplifiers while through a novel implementation of a least squares estimation process allows an implementation well suited for an FPGA application where limited resources and in particular memory resources are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Inventors: Philip Brown, John Ibison, Jeremy Segar, Stephen Cooper, Frank Friedman
  • Patent number: 8283978
    Abstract: A digital pre-distortion system which can provide the flexibility to model the highly non-linear distortion associated with High Efficiency RF Power Amplifiers while through a novel implementation of a least squares estimation process allows an implementation well suited for an FPGA application where limited resources and in particular memory resources are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Inventors: Philip Brown, John Ibison, Jeremy Segar, Stephen Cooper, Frank Friedman
  • Publication number: 20120242405
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods that provide broadband predistortion linearizers including simple frequency desensitizers to maintain substantially the same predistortion in a relatively broad frequency band. For example, a broadband predistorter can include a nonlinear component to predistort the drive signal, and a simple frequency desensitizer to compensate the frequency dependence of the nonlinear component. In particular implementations, the nonlinear component can have a frequency dependent impedance that substantially changes across the broad operating bandwidth and the frequency desensitizer can include resistive and reactive elements, such as a resistor (R), an inductor (L), and a capacitor (C) in a resonator configuration, to compensate for the frequency-dependence of the nonlinear component in the broad operating bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Younkyu Chung, Blythe Chadwick Deckman, Michael Peter DeLisio, JR.
  • Patent number: 8274329
    Abstract: A signal-compensation device includes a band-limitation unit that performs band limitation on a signal based on a variably adjusted band-set value and externally transmits the signal subjected to the band limitation to an amplifier, a measurement unit that measures a signal level of each of first and second signal components of a feedback signal which is part of an output of the amplifier fed back by a feedback unit to the band-limitation unit, where the each of first and second signal components is based on at least one of a property of variability of the band-set value, a feedback of the feedback signal by the feedback unit, and a nonlinear distortion of the amplifier, and an adjustment unit that adjusts the band-set value based on the signal level of each of the first and second signal components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Nobuhisa Aoki
  • Publication number: 20120235741
    Abstract: There is described a method of controlling signal alignment in a power amplifier, comprising: receiving an input signal to be amplified; receiving a supply voltage for the power amplifier, the supply voltage being derived in dependence on the signal to be amplified; amplifying the input signal to produce an output signal; comparing the output signal with a plurality of distorted versions of the input signal, each distorted version of the input signal being associated with a different time delay value; and adjusting the timing of either the input signal or the supply voltage by an amount in dependence on a time delay value determined to be associated with a distorted version of the input signal which most closely matches the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: NUJIRA LIMITED
    Inventor: James Brice
  • Publication number: 20120229209
    Abstract: A power amplifier amplifies a signal. An error signal calculating unit calculates an error signal in accordance with an input signal and an output from the power amplifier. A distortion compensation unit performs predistortion on the input signal by using distortion compensation coefficients that are generated in accordance with a plurality of delay signals obtained by giving different amounts of delay to the input signal and by using an error signal and outputs the input signal subjected to the predistortion to the signal amplifying unit. A tap interval control unit controls the delay intervals of the delay signals that are used for the predistortion performed by the distortion compensation unit in accordance with signal correlation information calculated from the input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: NOBUKAZU FUDABA, HIROYOSHI ISHIKAWA, YUICHI UTSUNOMIYA, KAZUO NAGATANI
  • Patent number: 8265586
    Abstract: A low-noise amplification apparatus and method in a receiver in a wireless communication system are provided, in which a main amplifier amplifies a received signal, a sub-amplifier amplifies a third-order harmonic component more strongly than a signal component in the received signal and cancels the third-order harmonic component by combining the amplified signal with the signal received from the main amplifier. A noise eliminator amplifies noise included in the received signal and eliminates the noise by combining the amplified noise with the signal received from the main amplifier or the signal received from the sub-amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-Hyun Lee, Hoon-Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 8253490
    Abstract: A digital pre-distortion system which can provide the flexibility to model the highly non-linear distortion associated with High Efficiency RF Power Amplifiers while through a novel implementation of a least squares estimation process allows an implementation well suited for an FPGA application where limited resources and in particular memory resources are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Inventors: Philip Brown, John Ibison, Jeremy Segar, Stephen Cooper, Frank Friedman
  • Patent number: 8248159
    Abstract: A method of processing a signal is disclosed. The method comprises generating a digital signal, converting the digital signal to an analog signal, and generating an amplified analog signal having distortions. The method further comprises converting the amplified analog signal to a feedback digital signal at a sample rate and updating a model of the distortions based on the feedback digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Netlogic Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy G. Batruni
  • Patent number: 8248160
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices relating to the provision of deliberate predistortion to an input signal to compensate for distortions introduced by an amplifier subsystem. An input signal is received by a signal processing system which includes a predistortion subsystem. The input signal is decomposed and the fragments are then predistorted by the predistortion subsystem by applying a deliberate predistortion to the fragments. The predistorted fragments are then separately processed and recombined to arrive at the system output signal. The predistortion subsystem adaptively adjusts based on characteristics of the system output signal. Also, the predistortion subsystem is equipped with a control system that is state based—the state of the predistortion subsystem is dependent upon the prevailing conditions and, when required, the control system switches the state of the predistortion subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Zarbana Digital Fund LLC
    Inventor: Aryan Saed
  • Publication number: 20120206199
    Abstract: A transconductor for providing an output current that is linear in the input voltage (Vin) comprises a main output transconductor (Ms, Mc) and a model transconductor (Msr1, Msr2, Mcr1, Mcr2) is comprised in a predistortion circuit (A), which measures the output of the model transconductor and the overall voltage input (Vin) to provide a control signal (Vc, Vc?) for the transconductors that compensates for their non-linearity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: ACP Advanced Circuit Pursuit AG
    Inventors: Qiuting Huang, Dimitrios Filippos Papadopoulos, Jurgen Rogin
  • Patent number: 8242847
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an amplifier. The amplifier includes a first path configured to generate a first current that has a first polarity third-order coefficient corresponding to an input signal, a swing adjustor configured to adjust a swing of the input signal, and a second path configured to generate a second current based on the swing-adjusted input signal. The second current has a second polarity third-order coefficient corresponding to the swing-adjusted input signal. The first current and the second current are combined to drive a load, such that a third-order inter-modulation (IM3) in the combined current is reduced. In addition, in a power amplifier example, parameters of the amplifier, such as a ratio of the swing adjustor, biases of transistors, a number of additional paths, are adjusted based on a detected power of the input signal, such that the IM3 reduction is achieved across a wide input power range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Poh Boon Leong, Ping Song
  • Publication number: 20120200355
    Abstract: Digital predistortion (“DPD”) of an RF power amplifier for signals comprising two widely spaced carrier clusters is proposed. The basis waveforms within the DPD are selected to allow for the use of a lower sampling rate. As one example, multi-carrier signals spanning 60 MHz of bandwidth may be linearized using a sample rate of 100 MHz for the DPD module and the observation path, as opposed to a sample rate exceeding 300 MHz (5 times Nyquist) used conventionally. A transmit (Tx) filter is located after the power amplifier to attenuate distortion modes exceeding the sampling rate used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventor: RICHARD NEIL BRAITHWAITE
  • Patent number: 8238849
    Abstract: A method of adaptive predistortion of a power amplifier, characterized in that the method comprises the steps of: storing values of a plurality of corresponding first and second coefficients; selecting one of the stored first coefficients; processing a first signal with the first coefficient to produce an input signal for the power amplifier; amplifying the input signal in the power amplifier to produce an output signal; calculating an error value from the output signal and a previously selected first coefficient; selecting a stored second coefficient corresponding with the previously selected first coefficient; updating the previously selected first coefficient with a value calculated from the error value and the second coefficient; updating the second coefficient; and replacing the previously selected first coefficient and corresponding second coefficient with the updated first and second coefficients respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Pratt
  • Patent number: 8238853
    Abstract: A power amplifier controller circuit controls a power amplifier based upon an amplitude correction signal indicating the amplitude difference between the amplitude of the input signal and an attenuated amplitude of the output signal. The power amplifier controller circuit comprises an amplitude control loop and a phase control loop. The amplitude control loop adjusts the supply voltage to the power amplifier based upon the amplitude correction signal. The RF power amplifier system may reduce the corrective action of the amplitude loop during periods of relatively rapid changes in amplitude, and thus distortion can be further reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Quantance, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge F. Drogi, Vikas Vinayak, Martin A. Tomasz
  • Patent number: 8237500
    Abstract: A correction circuit and method that is used in a system that produces an initial signal and has downstream components that adds a distortion error to that initial signal. The distortion error is added to the initial signal by the downstream components in the system. This creates a distorted output signal. The distorted output signal is then subtracted from the initial signal to obtain an initial negative distortion error. The initial negative distortion error is subtracted from the initial signal to create an initial conditioned signal. The initial conditioned signal is supplied to the electronic component of the system in place of the initial signal. The result is a reduction in distortion and noise that loops and adapts to changing signal patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Inventor: Edward M. Sioma
  • Publication number: 20120194270
    Abstract: A system including a power amplifier and a pre-distortion module coupled to the power amplifier. The pre-distortion module includes one or more smaller versions of the power amplifier to generate a pre-distortion signal that compensates for any memory-effect or inertia present in the power amplifier with application on frequency hopping and larger (up to 1 octave) instantaneous bandwidth communication systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: Empower RF Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paulo Correa, Andre A. Castro
  • Publication number: 20120194271
    Abstract: An amplifying device 1 of the present invention performs distortion compensation on distortion appearing in input-output characteristics of an amplifier 4 based on an input signal and an output signal of the amplifier 4, and includes a predistorter 23 that obtains the input signal and the output signal and performs distortion compensation of the amplifier; an ACLR calculation unit 25 that detects the distortion level of the distortion of the amplifier 4; and an adjustment unit 26 that adjusts the power of the input signal in accordance with the distortion level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Tadashi Araki
  • Patent number: 8232839
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising a linearizer that has a plurality of switchable first gain characteristics, the linearizer switching to the first gain characteristic to generate an intermediate signal from an input signal by using the switched first gain characteristic, and outputting the intermediate signal to a circuit having a second gain characteristic, wherein the linearizer includes: a linearization unit that has at least one of first rectifier, and linearizes the input signal; and a linearization reducing unit that has a plurality of second rectifiers having polarity opposite to polarity of the first rectifier and a first switching unit selecting at least one of the second rectifiers based on a control signal, the linearization reducing unit being connected in parallel to the linearization unit and reducing linearization of the input signal by the linearization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Mitsuyuki Ashida
  • Publication number: 20120183299
    Abstract: A distortion compensation circuit with frequency detection may be used with one or more non-linear elements, such as a laser, to compensate for frequency-dependent distortion generated by the non-linear element(s), for example, in broadband multichannel RF applications. Embodiments of the distortion compensation circuit may include a frequency detector circuit that detects changes in frequency loading conditions in the distortion compensation circuit such that distortion compensation may be adjusted to compensate for distortion under different frequency loading conditions. In a multichannel RF system with multiple channel operation modes, for example, the frequency detector circuit may detect changes in the frequency loading condition as a result of changing operation modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Zheng, Yi Wang, Chuan Peng
  • Patent number: 8224266
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is a predistortion approach to linearize a power amplifier without frequency conversion of the RF signals by using envelope and phase detectors to detect the error to be corrected, and then one or more analog multiplier(s) and a DSP-based processor. For the analog embodiment, the inherent nature of the analog circuitries allows digital predistortion processing structured directly at the RF band, and enables a single power amplifier to support multi-modulation schemes, multi-carriers and multi-channels. As a result, the predistortion architecture is particularly suitable for wireless transmission systems, such as base-stations, repeaters, and indoor signal coverage systems. The wireless system performance can be improved and upgraded just by using the new PA module rather than change or rebuild new subsystem in existing base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Dali Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongtai Liu, Dali Yang, James Anderson
  • Patent number: 8218676
    Abstract: A circuit for use with an amplification circuit having a predistortion datapath portion, a power amplifier portion and a gain portion. The predistortion datapath portion can output a predistorted signal based on the input signal. The power amplifier portion can output an amplified signal based on the predistorted signal. The gain portion can output a gain output signal based on the amplified signal. The circuit comprises a digital predistortion adaptation portion and a combiner. The digital predistortion adaptation portion can output a predistortion adaptation portion output signal. The combiner can output an error signal. The predistortion adaptation portion output signal is based on the input signal, the gain output signal and the error signal. The error signal is based on the difference between the predistorted signal and the predistortion adaptation portion output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Milind Anil Borkar, Fernando Alberto Mujica, Seydou Nourou Ba
  • Patent number: 8218677
    Abstract: Techniques are provided to pre-distort a signal that is transmitted by a transmitter of a wireless communication device, e.g., a device configured for wireless radio frequency communication. The transmitter of the device inherently introduces distortion to the baseband signal to be transmitted. In at least one frame of a baseband signal to be transmitted, at least one subcarrier in a preamble of the frame is shifted in frequency such that the at least one subcarrier is offset from a normal subcarrier frequency position. The at least one frame of the baseband signal is supplied to the transmitter that is configured to produce a transmit signal for transmission. The transmit signal at an output of the transmitter is sampled or detected and inter-modulation distortion in the transmit signal is determined at one or more frequencies as a result of shifting of the frequency of the at least one subcarrier in the preamble of the at least one frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hang Jin, John Grabner, Daniel Wee, Bror Peterson
  • Publication number: 20120170773
    Abstract: An amplifier 100 with a high-frequency noise removing function according to the present invention includes: an input terminal 101 to which an input signal is input; a ground terminal 102 maintained at a reference potential; a resistor 111 connected to the input terminal; an amplifying circuit 201 configured to amplify and output the input signal input through the resistor; and an output terminal 103 through which an output signal output from the amplifying circuit is output. The amplifying circuit includes a parasitic capacitance 112 configured to be connected to between one terminal of the resistor, the terminal being located on the opposite side of the input terminal, and the ground terminal, and the resistor and the parasitic capacitance constitute a low-pass filter 113.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Makabe, Shuya Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 8208876
    Abstract: A power amplifier controller circuit controls a power amplifier based upon an amplitude correction signal indicating the amplitude difference between the amplitude of the input signal and an attenuated amplitude of the output signal. The power amplifier controller circuit comprises an amplitude control loop and a phase control loop. The amplitude control loop adjusts the supply voltage to the power amplifier based upon the amplitude correction signal. The amplitude loop may include a variable gain amplifier adjusting the amplitude of the input signal. The amplitude loop can include a compression control block which may be configured either to adjust the gain in the variable gain amplifier or the voltage from the power supply based upon the operating level of the other, in addition to being based upon the amplitude correction signal, thus providing a way of maintaining the depth beyond the PA's compression point and allowing a control of the efficiency of the RF power amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Quantance, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge F. Drogi, Vikas Vinayak
  • Publication number: 20120154039
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for generating pre-emphasis coefficients for a pre-emphasis stage of a non-linear distorting device, the method comprising the steps of: capturing, for a given time period, samples of an input signal and samples of an output signal; determining the direction of an error between the captured samples; adjusting the input signal in a direction to reduce the error to generate an estimate of the pre-distorted input signal; generating updated pre-distortion coefficients in dependence on the estimate of the pre-distorted input signal and generated pre-distortion coefficients for one or more previous time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: NUJIRA LIMITED
    Inventor: James Brice
  • Publication number: 20120154041
    Abstract: Provided is a predistortion apparatus which performs predistortion by reflecting a memory effect when linearizing an output of a nonlinear device using a wideband signal. The predistortion apparatus includes a predistortion unit and a coefficient extraction unit. The predistortion unit selects and outputs one of outputs of the sub-predistorters as an output signal according to intensity of an input signal. The coefficient extraction unit selects one of a plurality of coefficient extractors according to intensity of a nonlinear signal which is generated in response to the output signal, extracts a plurality of predistortion coefficients with the nonlinear signal and the output signal, and delivers the extracted predistortion coefficients to the predistortion unit. Accordingly, the memory effect is reflected even when the input signal is a wideband signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Young-Hoon KIM, Gweon Do JO, Jung Hoon OH, Jae Ho JUNG
  • Publication number: 20120154040
    Abstract: The predistorter may include: a predistortion filter predistorting an input signal to provide an output signal; a predistortion output estimation unit estimating the characteristics of a nonlinear device based on a signal processed by the nonlinear device and the output signal, and calculating a desired output signal of the predistortion filter by using the estimated characteristics of the nonlinear device; and an adaptive algorithm driving unit comparing the output signal with the desired output signal to output an error as a comparison result, calculating a filter coefficient according to which the calculated error is minimized, and providing the calculated filter coefficient to the predistortion filter in order to update a filter coefficient of the predistortion filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Young Hoon KIM, Gweon Do JO, Kwang Chun LEE
  • Publication number: 20120154038
    Abstract: A high performance and cost effective method of RF-digital hybrid mode power amplifier systems with high linearity and high efficiency for multi-frequency band wideband communication system applications is disclosed. The present disclosure enables a power amplifier system to be field reconfigurable and support multiple operating frequency bands on the same PA system over a very wide bandwidth. In addition, the present invention supports multi-modulation schemes (modulation agnostic), multi-carriers and multi-channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: DALI SYSTEMS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Wan Jong Kim, Kyoung Joon Cho, Shawn Patrick Stapleton
  • Patent number: 8204454
    Abstract: This distortion compensator apparatus is a distortion compensator apparatus compensating nonlinearity of an amplifier and includes: a memory storing a compensation parameter used for correcting an input signal of the amplifier; a compensator correcting the input signal of the amplifier based on the compensation parameter; and an update controller updating the compensation parameter according to an operation state of the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamaoka, Keiichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8204456
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method may include digitally pre-distorting a digital baseband signal with an opposite phase of a C-IM3 distortion term such that the pre-distortion and C-IM3 distortion cancel each other out in a transmitter. The method may also include digitally conditioning the pre-distorted digital signal in order to provide a flat amplitude response of a composite filter comprising a baseband filter and a digital half-band filter of the transmitter, and to provide a linear phase response for the composite filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventors: Bing Xu, Clive Tang, Mahibur Rahman
  • Patent number: 8204100
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of a communication device, the communication device includes communication circuitry configured to communicate via a plurality of transmission channels. The communication circuitry includes crosstalk reduction circuitry to reduce crosstalk for a part of the plurality of transmission channels by joint processing of data of the part of the transmission channels. This part is selected from the plurality of transmission channels depending on a grouping of the transmission channels into at least two groups. Each of the at least two groups is assigned a target bit rate. The target bit rate differs for different groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Lantiq Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Heinrich Schenk
  • Patent number: 8204455
    Abstract: Techniques for sending and receiving signals include pre-distorting signals before transmission across a communication path. The signals are pre-distorted as a function of a distortion on the communication path. In one embodiments, transmitter a broadcasts to receiver b and there is also a transmitter b broadcasting to receiver a. This return channel enables both transmitters a and b to have a priori information regarding the transmission medium and path the signal takes. In this way, the nature of the distortion or interference is known to the transmitter, therefore, it pre-distorts the transmitted signal to compensate for the receiver exceeding its capabilities in recovering signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics
    Inventors: Robert Hardacker, Kenichi Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 8198946
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a ring oscillator and a noise canceller. The ring oscillator includes first and second signal generators. The first signal generator is configured to generate a first output signal having a first phase based on an input signal. The second signal generator is configured to generate a second output signal having a second phase different from the first phase based on the input signal. The noise canceller includes first and second amplifiers and an arithmetic module. The first amplifier is configured to amplify the first output signal generated by the first signal generator using a first amplification factor. The second amplifier is configured to amplify the second output signal generated by the second signal generator using a second amplification factor. The arithmetic module is configured to combine the first output signal amplified by the first amplifier with the second output signal amplified by the second amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yuji Satoh
  • Publication number: 20120139629
    Abstract: An actual linear amplifier distorts an input signal, such as an RF signal, and generates third order intermodulation (IM3) products. A single-port predistortion circuit is connected at a single node of an input line to the amplifier via an AC coupling capacitor. The fundamental frequency of the input signal is applied to a forward biased diode junction. The current through the diode is applied to a second capacitor. The appropriate setting of a tuning device, such as a tunable resistor or a tunable capacitor, causes the predistortion circuit to invert the second harmonic generated by the diode. The inverted second harmonic signal is applied to the single node of the input line to add predistortion to the signal applied to the amplifier. The predistortion cancels or substantially reduces the IM3 products at the output of the amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: LINEAR TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gregory A. Fung
  • Publication number: 20120133433
    Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for and a method of controlling a predistorter, and a method of detecting power control state. The method of controlling a predistorter, which is for predistorting a signal input into a power amplifier, comprises storing predistortion coefficients used by the predistorter; acquiring indices each indicative of an output power of the power amplifier; detecting, based on the indices acquired in the acquiring, whether the power amplifier is in a state of undergoing power control; and supplying the stored predistortion coefficients to the predistorter when it is detected that the power amplifier is in the state of undergoing power control, or supplying, when it is detected that the power amplifier is not in the state of undergoing power control, to the predistorter predistortion coefficients calculated by a unit that performs predistortion coefficient adaptive updating operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hui LI, Takanori Iwamatsu, Jianmin Zhou
  • Publication number: 20120133434
    Abstract: A digital pre-distortion system and method are provided. The method includes performing a digital pre-distortion operation; and limiting an input of the power amplifier to be no greater than a limit threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventor: Young-Yoon WOO