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Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 28, 2017
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Igor Gutman, Ramat Gan, IL;

Ariel Sagi, Haifa, IL;

Alecsander Eitan, Haifa, IL;

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/36 (2006.01); H03F 1/32 (2006.01); H03M 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/3247 (2013.01); H03F 1/3294 (2013.01); H03F 2200/102 (2013.01); H03M 1/001 (2013.01); H04B 1/0017 (2013.01);
Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a digital predistortion (DPD) device for use within a wireless transmitter that permits the use of a downstream digital-to-analog converter that operates at a clock rate close to the bandwidth of a digital baseband input signal. In some examples, a sampling rate of a digital baseband input signal is increased using an upsampler to obtain an increased rate digital input signal. Predistortion is applied to the increased rate digital input signal using a DPD device to obtain a predistorted digital signal. The sampling rate of the predistorted digital signal is then decreased using a downsampler to obtain a lower-rate predistorted digital signal with a sampling rate below the increased rate of the upsampler (e.g. close to the bandwidth of a digital baseband input signal). A low pass filter may be provided to filter out-of-band signal components from the predistorted digital signal.


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