Spectral Effects of Discrete-Time Amplitude Levels in Digital-Intensive Wideband Radio Transmitters

Mikko Martelius; Kari Stadius; Jerry Lemberg; Enrico Roverato; Marko Kosunen; Jussi Ryynänen; Lauri Anttila; Mikko Valkama

doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8350970

Spectral Effects of Discrete-Time Amplitude Levels in Digital-Intensive Wideband Radio Transmitters

Mikko Martelius
, Kari Stadius
, Jerry Lemberg
, Enrico Roverato
, Marko Kosunen
, Jussi Ryynänen
, Lauri Anttila
, Mikko Valkama

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Abstract

This paper examines one source of spectral degradation in polar and multilevel outphasing transmitters. The degradation is caused by the amplitude signal appearing at the transmitter output as a baseband component, in addition to the desired RF signal. This baseband component contains sampling images and quantization noise across the spectrum. Thus, it adds noise at the signal band where it cannot be filtered and limits the achievable ACLR, particularly in wideband LTE and 5G systems. We analyze the origin of this phenomenon and related effects of system and signal parameters, and propose three design solutions for eliminating or alleviating the problem. Our analysis and simulations demonstrate that using a voltage-subtracting power combiner cancels the described degradation, potentially leading to significant improvement in spectral performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2018
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538648810
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8350970
Publication status	Published - 26 Apr 2018
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - Florence, Italy Duration: 27 May 2018 → 30 May 2018

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ISSN (Electronic)	2379-447X

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Conference	IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	27/05/18 → 30/05/18

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This work is supported by Nokia, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, and the Academy of Finland.

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