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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2008
Applicant:
Bryan C. Hehn, Melbourne, FL (US);
Inventor:
Bryan C. Hehn, Melbourne, FL (US);
Assignee:
Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An electronic device includes a nonlinear power amplifier, a predistortion coefficient calculator, and a memory polynomial predistortion filter coupled to the nonlinear power amplifier and to the predistortion coefficient calculator. The memory polynomial predistortion filter may include a plurality of finite impulse response (FIR) filter stages, and a summer coupled to the plurality of FIR filter stages. The FIR filter stages may functionally operate in parallel or may include a series of FIR filters coupled in parallel.