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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2010
Applicants:
Xinping Huang, Ottawa, CA;
Zhiwen Zhu, Kanata, CA;
Mario Caron, Gatineau, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/02 (2006.01); H04L 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and circuit for linearizing amplifiers and other nonlinear circuits for multi-carrier signals. An output signal from the amplifier is sampled, and a correlation matrix of size N×N is computed from the sampled signal, wherein N exceeds the number of multiplexed carriers in the signal. A signal-to-distortion ratio (SDR) is then estimated based on a ratio of one or more largest to one or more smallest eigenvalues of the correlation matrix, and the signal into the amplifier is pre-distorted so as to maximize the SDR.