Abstract:
Adaptive filtering is used to substantially cancel distortion in radio frequency (RF) signals. Such adaptive filtering can be used in an RF transmitting module to pre-compensate an RF signal with compensation (inverse) distortion to cancel inherent transmission path distortion from the RF signal. Adaptive filtering can also be used in a multi-carrier RF receiving module to cancel from a given carrier signal distortion due to cross talk from adjacent carrier signals. Adaptive filtering in an RF transceiver can be used to cancel from a received RF signal distortion arising from leakage of a transmit signal into the receive path.
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.