Effect of the Base-band Measurement Setup Errors on DPD Performance and Elimination Procedure

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A. H. Yüzer
E. B. Şanlı

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In this study, the effect of base-band measurement setup errors on DPD performance was investigated and a calibration procedure is developed to eliminate the measurement errors. A base-band measurement setup is prepared at laboratory with instruments and then the data which is measured and the deteriorating effect of errors on Digital Predistortion (DPD) linearization performance are investigated. In order to eliminate deteriorating effect of this error a three steps calibration procedure is developed. Before and after calibration application DPD performance is measured. It is showed both in simulation and experimentally that the calibration procedure improved the DPD system linearization performance from 10 dB to 26dB and 13dB to 20dB, respectively.

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Yüzer, A. H., & Şanlı, E. B. (2017). Effect of the Base-band Measurement Setup Errors on DPD Performance and Elimination Procedure. Advanced Electromagnetics, 6(4), 52–57. https://doi.org/10.7716/aem.v6i4.584
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E. B. Şanlı, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Karabuk University ,Karabuk, Turkey

Emine Betül ŞANLI was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1989. She received her B.S. degree in Teacher Training in Electronics Department from Gazi University, Ankara Turkey, in 2011 and M.S. degree from Karabük University for Mechatronic Engineering Department, Karabük, Turkey, in 2015. Her dissertation for M.S. was on ‘Linearization with Digital Pre-Distortion of High Frequency Power Amplifer and Elimination of the Effects of the Measurement Setup’.

She was lecturer in Electronics Department of Ankara University from 2012 to 2014. From 2014 till now she is test engineer in PRF Engineering Inc.

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