A subsampled adaptive subband digital predistortion algorithm

Abstract

To reduce energy consumption of transmission sys-tems, the power amplifier in transceiver systems is a key element to be improved. The energy consumption associated with this component represents a major part of the total consumption of transmission systems. Moreover it plays an essential role in the quality of the transmitted signals. Digital predistortion (DPD) is a technique that aims at linearizing power amplifiers and thus allows energy efficiency improvements. However, this technique requires, in the feedback path, wideband and high dynamic range analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and usually large computational resources. Subband digitization with subband DPD algorithm have been proposed to relax the design constraints of the feedback path ADC and the digital processing unit. We present in this article a subsampled RLS-based subband DPD algorithm. We show that the gain in terms of number of multiplications and/or additions per second (MAC/s), between the conventional wideband approach and the subsampled algorithm, tends to the number of subbands. Simulations show that the convergence speed by RLS iteration of the subsampled algorithm is maintained. Therefore, the subsampled algorithm converges with the same number of iterations as the conventional wideband approach. After conver-gence, the residual mean-square-error (MSE) is approximately -76 dB for the conventional wideband algorithm and -70 dB for the proposed algorithm.