Modern wireless communication equipment such as outphasing power amplifiers or systems like massive-MIMO rely heavily on transmission of complex wideband modulated radio frequency signals on parallel signal paths. As these signal bandwidths increase, wireless transmitters are more susceptible to amplitude and phase distortions across frequency. We propose a novel method to quantify the complex signal distortions in each transmit path and a technique to pre-compensate the transmitter over a wide bandwidth of interest. This work has been experimentally validated with measured results on two separate RF test benches using signal bandwidths up to 100 MHz. An outphasing power amplifier bench for WCDMA at S band requiring 4 signal paths and a satellite uplink modulator using 8-PSK at Ku band requiring two signal paths were tested in the experimental validation. Further, it is also validated that this method requires only one iteration to calibrate a set of parallel RF signal paths.
One of the major drawbacks that precludes the use of sliding-mode control wideband signal tracking in buck-based switching power amplifiers is the lack of a design-oriented analysis of tracking bandwidth limits. In this paper the tracking limits for a linear-surface slidingmode controlled ideal buck converter are addressed for different representative cases, namely, for a single tone, two tones, multiple tone, and a generalization to an arbitrary wideband signal. Analytical design-oriented equations are matched with simulations both for synthetic single-tone and arbitrary wideband noise signal as well as for the envelope signal corresponding to the EDGE standard in an Envelope Elimination and Restoration technique polar RF transmitter architecture.
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