On the RF/DSP design for efficiency of OFDM transmitters
- 11 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
- Vol. 53 (7) , 2355-2361
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tmtt.2005.850437
Abstract
In this paper, a system-level RF/digital signal processing (DSP) design approach of power-efficient orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitters is proposed. A DSP-based low-IF architecture, which allows a significant enhancement of their power and spectrum efficiencies, is proposed. The cascade of the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction technique, predistortion technique, and the in-phase and quadrature modulation led to impressive improvement in the power efficiency and effective linear output power of the OFDM transmitter. Measurement results carried out on an IEEE 802.11a transmitter designed and built for this experiment are presented in terms of error vector magnitude (EVM), adjacent channel leakage ratio, and power efficiency. The power stage of this transmitter uses a heterojunction bipolar InGaP transistor operating in a deeply class AB. The cascade of the PAPR reduction and baseband predistortion processing modules results in the reduction of the power backoff operation point by approximately 10 dB accompanied by a relative increase in the wireless local area network transmitter power efficiency by roughly 400% while meeting the emission mask spectrum and EVM levels demanded by the 802.11a standard.Keywords
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