Deembedding static nonlinearities and accurately identifying and modeling memory effects in wide-band RF transmitters

Abstract

In this paper, a robust modeling technique for memoryless wide-band radio frequency transmitters using a dynamic exponential weighted moving average algorithm is developed and tested. To improve the relatively limited accuracy of the conventional Wiener model in predicting the response of dynamic nonlinear transmitters, a new augmented Wiener model is proposed along with its parameter-identification procedure. The accuracy of the augmented Wiener model is compared with that of the conventional Wiener model by using an L-band 60-W peak-envelope-power GaAs field-effect-transistor push-pull amplifier-based transmitter, which is driven by a two-carrier wide-band code-division multiple-access signal.