A new approach for concurrent Dual-Band IF Digital PreDistortion: System design and analysis

Abstract

In this paper we propose a dual band digital predistorter (DB-DPD), suitable for concurrent dual-band power amplifiers. A sub-sampling receiver is at the basis of the feedback path, while the vectorial gain adjuster is achieved at the proper digital intermediate frequency. The proposed method adopts a conventional memory polynomial DPD for linearization. The approach is tested by system-level simulations and it was proven to be able to correct most of the nonlinearity, with only a modest performance loss with respect to single-band architectures.