CA1241391A - Automatic reduction of intermodulation products in high power linear amplifiers - Google Patents
Automatic reduction of intermodulation products in high power linear amplifiersInfo
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- H03F1/00—Details of amplifiers with only discharge tubes, only semiconductor devices or only unspecified devices as amplifying elements
- H03F1/32—Modifications of amplifiers to reduce non-linear distortion
- H03F1/3223—Modifications of amplifiers to reduce non-linear distortion using feed-forward
- H03F1/3229—Modifications of amplifiers to reduce non-linear distortion using feed-forward using a loop for error extraction and another loop for error subtraction
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- H03F2201/32—Indexing scheme relating to modifications of amplifiers to reduce non-linear distortion
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Abstract
AUTOMATIC REDUCTION OF INTERMODULATION
PRODUCTS IN HIGH POWER LINEAR AMPLIFIERS
Abstract A distortion simulating pilot is injected at the input of an amplifier which uses feed forward distortion correction. The magnitude of the pilot signal in the amplifier output is used to control a decreasing step size circuit algorithm for adjusting the gain and phase of the feed forward distortion signal to eliminate substantially the pilot signal and the distortion introduced by the amplifier.
PRODUCTS IN HIGH POWER LINEAR AMPLIFIERS
Abstract A distortion simulating pilot is injected at the input of an amplifier which uses feed forward distortion correction. The magnitude of the pilot signal in the amplifier output is used to control a decreasing step size circuit algorithm for adjusting the gain and phase of the feed forward distortion signal to eliminate substantially the pilot signal and the distortion introduced by the amplifier.
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AUTOMATIC REDUCTION OF INTERMODULATION
PRODUCTS IN HIGH POWER LINEAR AMPLIFIERS
Technical Field This invention relates to high power linear amplifiers and, in particular, to an automatic control system using a pilot tone for the reduction of distortion produced by high power linear amplifiers.
Back round of the Invention All linear amplifiers distort the signal at some power level. This distortion produces intermodulation products when multiple signals are present.
Intermodulation products are undesirable because they cause interference and crosstalk. Standards have been set to limit the level of these unwanted signals in transmitters. To meet these standards, methods ox reducing distortion have been developed.
The most common method is called eedbac~.
Feedbac1c works well at low frequencies but it becomes a problem at ultra high frequencies. At these Erequencies two basic methods are generally used. They are predistortion and feed forward.
Predistortion involves producing a distortion similar to the distortion being generated by the linear amplifier and adding it at the input in the correct gain, phase and delay to produce cance~ation of the distortion at the output of the linear amplifier. This method requires matching the distortion characteristics of two amplifiers and hence limits the amount of correction that can be obtained The feed forward method does not have this limitation because it separates out the distortion generated in the linear ampliEier itself, and then adds it back with gain, phase, and delay adjusted for maximum cancellation. The amount of distortion reduction available using feed forward is limited by the accuracy of the gain and phase adjustments. The problem is tha-t continuous 3~
AUTOMATIC REDUCTION OF INTERMODULATION
PRODUCTS IN HIGH POWER LINEAR AMPLIFIERS
Technical Field This invention relates to high power linear amplifiers and, in particular, to an automatic control system using a pilot tone for the reduction of distortion produced by high power linear amplifiers.
Back round of the Invention All linear amplifiers distort the signal at some power level. This distortion produces intermodulation products when multiple signals are present.
Intermodulation products are undesirable because they cause interference and crosstalk. Standards have been set to limit the level of these unwanted signals in transmitters. To meet these standards, methods ox reducing distortion have been developed.
The most common method is called eedbac~.
Feedbac1c works well at low frequencies but it becomes a problem at ultra high frequencies. At these Erequencies two basic methods are generally used. They are predistortion and feed forward.
Predistortion involves producing a distortion similar to the distortion being generated by the linear amplifier and adding it at the input in the correct gain, phase and delay to produce cance~ation of the distortion at the output of the linear amplifier. This method requires matching the distortion characteristics of two amplifiers and hence limits the amount of correction that can be obtained The feed forward method does not have this limitation because it separates out the distortion generated in the linear ampliEier itself, and then adds it back with gain, phase, and delay adjusted for maximum cancellation. The amount of distortion reduction available using feed forward is limited by the accuracy of the gain and phase adjustments. The problem is tha-t continuous 3~
2 --precision trimming of these adjustments is necessary in order to achieve and maintain the maximum distortion reduction.
Summary of the Invention ______ _________________ In accordance with an aspect of the invention there is provided an automatic control system for reducing the distortion produced by a power amplifier said control system comprising means for inserting a pilot signal into the path of an input signal before delivery to said power amplifier, means for extracting a sample of the output signal from said power amplifier means for delivering a signal representing the amplitude ox said pilot signal present in said output signal from said extracted sample, and means responsive to said signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal for automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component which is derived rom said output signal so that when said controlled distortion component is coupled with said output signal, substantially all distortion, including said pilot signal, is cancelled leaving a substantially pure amplified signal.
In accordance with another aspect of the invention there is provided a method for automatically controlling the distortion produced by a power amplifier comprising the steps of inserting a pilot signal into the input signal before delivery to said power amplifier, extracting a sample of the output signal from said power amplifier, delivering a signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal from said extracted sample, and in response to said signal represent-ing the amplitude said pilot signal present in said output signal, automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component which is derived from said output signal so that when said controlled distortion component is coupled with said output signal, sub-stantially all distortion, including said pilot signal, is cancelled leaving a substantially pure amplified signal.
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- 2a -A distortion simulating pilot is injected at the input of an amplifier which uses feed forward distortion correction. The magnitude of the pilot signal in the amplifier output is used to control a decreasing step size circuit algorithm for adjusting the amplitude and phase of the feed forward distortion signal to eliminate substantially the pilot signal and the distortion introduced by the amplifier.
A search limiter circuit is provided to prevent the circuit from locking up if the pilot signal is temporarily lost.
A course control circuit is included for taking a large step size when the system is first turned on.
The present invention provides 360 degrees phase lS adjustment and up to about twenty decibels oE gain adjustment.
Brief Description of the Drawings FIG. 1 shows the prior art;
FIG. 2 shows the circuit in block diagram useful to effect the present invention;
FIG.'s 3, 4 and 6 show the control circuit of FIG. 2 in various levels of detail; and FIG. 5 is a timing diagram for the control circuit.
Detailed Description Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a prior art circuit in block diagram form of a feed forward system.
Splitter circuit 12 causes the input signal on lead 11 to be duplicated: one part is sent to power amplifier 14 and the other to cancellation circuit 18 via path 15. The output from power amplifier 14 includes a distortion component caused by the amplifying step. A small portion of the output signal from power amplifier 14 is obtained
Summary of the Invention ______ _________________ In accordance with an aspect of the invention there is provided an automatic control system for reducing the distortion produced by a power amplifier said control system comprising means for inserting a pilot signal into the path of an input signal before delivery to said power amplifier, means for extracting a sample of the output signal from said power amplifier means for delivering a signal representing the amplitude ox said pilot signal present in said output signal from said extracted sample, and means responsive to said signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal for automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component which is derived rom said output signal so that when said controlled distortion component is coupled with said output signal, substantially all distortion, including said pilot signal, is cancelled leaving a substantially pure amplified signal.
In accordance with another aspect of the invention there is provided a method for automatically controlling the distortion produced by a power amplifier comprising the steps of inserting a pilot signal into the input signal before delivery to said power amplifier, extracting a sample of the output signal from said power amplifier, delivering a signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal from said extracted sample, and in response to said signal represent-ing the amplitude said pilot signal present in said output signal, automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component which is derived from said output signal so that when said controlled distortion component is coupled with said output signal, sub-stantially all distortion, including said pilot signal, is cancelled leaving a substantially pure amplified signal.
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- 2a -A distortion simulating pilot is injected at the input of an amplifier which uses feed forward distortion correction. The magnitude of the pilot signal in the amplifier output is used to control a decreasing step size circuit algorithm for adjusting the amplitude and phase of the feed forward distortion signal to eliminate substantially the pilot signal and the distortion introduced by the amplifier.
A search limiter circuit is provided to prevent the circuit from locking up if the pilot signal is temporarily lost.
A course control circuit is included for taking a large step size when the system is first turned on.
The present invention provides 360 degrees phase lS adjustment and up to about twenty decibels oE gain adjustment.
Brief Description of the Drawings FIG. 1 shows the prior art;
FIG. 2 shows the circuit in block diagram useful to effect the present invention;
FIG.'s 3, 4 and 6 show the control circuit of FIG. 2 in various levels of detail; and FIG. 5 is a timing diagram for the control circuit.
Detailed Description Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a prior art circuit in block diagram form of a feed forward system.
Splitter circuit 12 causes the input signal on lead 11 to be duplicated: one part is sent to power amplifier 14 and the other to cancellation circuit 18 via path 15. The output from power amplifier 14 includes a distortion component caused by the amplifying step. A small portion of the output signal from power amplifier 14 is obtained
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prom directional coupler 16 and sent to cancellation circuit 18. The gain, phase and delay ox the input signal via lead 15 is adjusted so that the input signal is subtracted Erom the output signal from power ampliEier 1 in cancellation circuit 18 to derive a pure distortion component on lead 19. When this distortion component on lead 19, after being adjustea for gain ,~nd phase, is combined with the signal from the power amplifier output received via delay line 17 at directional coupler 10, a clean signal is delivered at the output from directional coupler 10 because the distortion component is canceled.
A problem with this method, however, is that the amount of cancellation depends on the precision of the gain and phase adjustments.
Referring to FIG. 2, there is shown in block diagram form the preferred embodiment of the present invention A test signal, or pilot signal 31, is inserted into the path of the input signal via coupler 3n where they are mixed beEore delivery to the input of power amplifier 24. The level, that is amplitude, of the pilot signal is adjusted to be equal to the level of the distortion components being generated in power amplifier 24. This is typically about thirty decibels below the desired signal level. The amplitude and delay of the clean input signal via path 25 are adjusted to equal the amplitude and delay of the distortion output sample; the phase, however, is adjusted to be exactly opposite. The input signal via path 25 and the input signal component from coupler 26 cancel each other at summing pad 28 leaving the distortion present on output lead 29 from summing pad 28. The gain, phase and delay adjustments at this point are not critical because the adjustments are necessary only to reduce the amplitude of the clean signal to the level of the distortion to obtain good results.
The distortion components, however, require precise adjustment of Cain and phase to produce maximum cancellation of distortion when added back into the : L2~13~
delayed output. This adjustment is made by the automatic control circuit 32. The reference for control circuit 32 is the pilot signal which is detected using narrow band receiver 34. Samples of the output from coupler 20, which represents the point where distortion is being canceled, are obtained from coupler 36 and delivered to narrow band receiver 34. The amplitude of the pilot is detected and used by control circuit 32 to determine the precise gain and phase adjustments for circuit 40 which are necessary to produce the best cancellation of both the pilot and the distortion introduced by power amplifier 24.
Referring to FIG. 3, there is shown a block diagram of control circuit 32 in FIG. 2. The output from level detector 310 is proportional to the logarithm (log) of the pilot amplitude. under control oE switch timing control circuit 350, switch 370 causes current sources in circuit 360 Jo be connected to voltage storage bufEers 380.
The output siynals from buEEers 380 via leads 33 and 35, respectively, control the gain and phase adjustments of circuit 40 for substantially eliminating the distortion components.
Each time switc11 370 is closed, a small adjustment is made to circuit 40. The direction of the change is detected by sensor 330 which controls the polarity oE the current sources in circuit 360. If the pilot amplitude is reduced by the adjustment, the polarity remains the same for the next adjustment. If the pilot amplitude is increased by the adjustment, the polarity of the current source is reversed for the next adjustment.
This process reduces the pilot amplitude to a minimum. The size of each change is controlled by the amount of current being delivered to voltage storage buffers 380. This current is made proportional to the amplitude oE the pilot so that as the ideal settings are approached the adjustments become finer.
Referring to FIG. 4, there is shown further detail for the entire automatic gain and phase control 3~
-- s ( circuit 50 comprising: narrow band pilot receiver and level detector 34 of ~IG.2; automatic control circuit 32 of FIG. 2; attenuator and phase circuit 40 which comprises ninety degree splitter 410, two biphase attenuators 420 and 430, and summing pad 440; and, amplifier 42. Such an arrangement allows 360 degrees of phase adjustment and about twenty decibels of gain change.
Switch timing control circuit 350 of FIG. 3 comprises decade sequencer 352 as shown in FIG. 4. This sequencer 352 controls four switches: switch 370 which comprises switches S1 and S2; and, switches S3 and S4 which are part of direction of change sensor 330.
Sequencer 352 also controls two gates G1 and G2.
FIG. 5 is a timing diagram showing the sequence in which these switches and gates are controlled.
At time to when S3 is closed, capacitor C3 begins charging to the pilot level. At time tl, ~3 opens, S1 is closed, capacitor C1 begins charging, and the phase and gain changes of the distortion signal are effected via the biphase attenuator 430 in circuit 40.
Then at time t2, switch S1 opens, switch S4 is closed, and capacitor C4 begins charging to the pilot level. it time t3, switch S4 opens, and comparator 332 determines whether the pilot level changed up or down. At time t4, gate Gl is enabled, flip flop 342 is toggled, that is, the current is reversed if the output from comparator 332 indicates the pilot level has increased. At time t5~ the enabling signal to gate G1 is removed.
The aforesaid steps are repeated at times t5 through tgl for operating switches S3, S4, S2, gate G2, flip flop 344, for charging and discharginy capacitors C3, C4, and C2 and for adjusting biphase attenuator 420~ Thereafter at time tot the enabling signal to gate G2 is eemoved and the entire sequence recycled repeatedly. As the ideal settings of gain and phase are approached, the size of each adjustment becomes smaller.
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FIG. 6 shows greater detail than FIG. 4 for control circuit 32 of FIG. 2. The operation of each of the components is known to one skilled in the art and is not repeated here. Two refinemellts, however, have been included in FIG. 6. One is a search limiter 60 which prevents a lock up condition from occur:ring if the pilot is temporarily lost. The search limiter contains four comparators which sense the positive and negative voltage levels at the buffer outputs 33, 35. When these voltages approach their limit the comparators reverse the current sources. This prevents the voltage output from limiting and locking. The other refinement is the addition of a course control circuit 66, or large step size search circuit, for faster initial adjustments, when the circuit is turned on.
prom directional coupler 16 and sent to cancellation circuit 18. The gain, phase and delay ox the input signal via lead 15 is adjusted so that the input signal is subtracted Erom the output signal from power ampliEier 1 in cancellation circuit 18 to derive a pure distortion component on lead 19. When this distortion component on lead 19, after being adjustea for gain ,~nd phase, is combined with the signal from the power amplifier output received via delay line 17 at directional coupler 10, a clean signal is delivered at the output from directional coupler 10 because the distortion component is canceled.
A problem with this method, however, is that the amount of cancellation depends on the precision of the gain and phase adjustments.
Referring to FIG. 2, there is shown in block diagram form the preferred embodiment of the present invention A test signal, or pilot signal 31, is inserted into the path of the input signal via coupler 3n where they are mixed beEore delivery to the input of power amplifier 24. The level, that is amplitude, of the pilot signal is adjusted to be equal to the level of the distortion components being generated in power amplifier 24. This is typically about thirty decibels below the desired signal level. The amplitude and delay of the clean input signal via path 25 are adjusted to equal the amplitude and delay of the distortion output sample; the phase, however, is adjusted to be exactly opposite. The input signal via path 25 and the input signal component from coupler 26 cancel each other at summing pad 28 leaving the distortion present on output lead 29 from summing pad 28. The gain, phase and delay adjustments at this point are not critical because the adjustments are necessary only to reduce the amplitude of the clean signal to the level of the distortion to obtain good results.
The distortion components, however, require precise adjustment of Cain and phase to produce maximum cancellation of distortion when added back into the : L2~13~
delayed output. This adjustment is made by the automatic control circuit 32. The reference for control circuit 32 is the pilot signal which is detected using narrow band receiver 34. Samples of the output from coupler 20, which represents the point where distortion is being canceled, are obtained from coupler 36 and delivered to narrow band receiver 34. The amplitude of the pilot is detected and used by control circuit 32 to determine the precise gain and phase adjustments for circuit 40 which are necessary to produce the best cancellation of both the pilot and the distortion introduced by power amplifier 24.
Referring to FIG. 3, there is shown a block diagram of control circuit 32 in FIG. 2. The output from level detector 310 is proportional to the logarithm (log) of the pilot amplitude. under control oE switch timing control circuit 350, switch 370 causes current sources in circuit 360 Jo be connected to voltage storage bufEers 380.
The output siynals from buEEers 380 via leads 33 and 35, respectively, control the gain and phase adjustments of circuit 40 for substantially eliminating the distortion components.
Each time switc11 370 is closed, a small adjustment is made to circuit 40. The direction of the change is detected by sensor 330 which controls the polarity oE the current sources in circuit 360. If the pilot amplitude is reduced by the adjustment, the polarity remains the same for the next adjustment. If the pilot amplitude is increased by the adjustment, the polarity of the current source is reversed for the next adjustment.
This process reduces the pilot amplitude to a minimum. The size of each change is controlled by the amount of current being delivered to voltage storage buffers 380. This current is made proportional to the amplitude oE the pilot so that as the ideal settings are approached the adjustments become finer.
Referring to FIG. 4, there is shown further detail for the entire automatic gain and phase control 3~
-- s ( circuit 50 comprising: narrow band pilot receiver and level detector 34 of ~IG.2; automatic control circuit 32 of FIG. 2; attenuator and phase circuit 40 which comprises ninety degree splitter 410, two biphase attenuators 420 and 430, and summing pad 440; and, amplifier 42. Such an arrangement allows 360 degrees of phase adjustment and about twenty decibels of gain change.
Switch timing control circuit 350 of FIG. 3 comprises decade sequencer 352 as shown in FIG. 4. This sequencer 352 controls four switches: switch 370 which comprises switches S1 and S2; and, switches S3 and S4 which are part of direction of change sensor 330.
Sequencer 352 also controls two gates G1 and G2.
FIG. 5 is a timing diagram showing the sequence in which these switches and gates are controlled.
At time to when S3 is closed, capacitor C3 begins charging to the pilot level. At time tl, ~3 opens, S1 is closed, capacitor C1 begins charging, and the phase and gain changes of the distortion signal are effected via the biphase attenuator 430 in circuit 40.
Then at time t2, switch S1 opens, switch S4 is closed, and capacitor C4 begins charging to the pilot level. it time t3, switch S4 opens, and comparator 332 determines whether the pilot level changed up or down. At time t4, gate Gl is enabled, flip flop 342 is toggled, that is, the current is reversed if the output from comparator 332 indicates the pilot level has increased. At time t5~ the enabling signal to gate G1 is removed.
The aforesaid steps are repeated at times t5 through tgl for operating switches S3, S4, S2, gate G2, flip flop 344, for charging and discharginy capacitors C3, C4, and C2 and for adjusting biphase attenuator 420~ Thereafter at time tot the enabling signal to gate G2 is eemoved and the entire sequence recycled repeatedly. As the ideal settings of gain and phase are approached, the size of each adjustment becomes smaller.
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FIG. 6 shows greater detail than FIG. 4 for control circuit 32 of FIG. 2. The operation of each of the components is known to one skilled in the art and is not repeated here. Two refinemellts, however, have been included in FIG. 6. One is a search limiter 60 which prevents a lock up condition from occur:ring if the pilot is temporarily lost. The search limiter contains four comparators which sense the positive and negative voltage levels at the buffer outputs 33, 35. When these voltages approach their limit the comparators reverse the current sources. This prevents the voltage output from limiting and locking. The other refinement is the addition of a course control circuit 66, or large step size search circuit, for faster initial adjustments, when the circuit is turned on.
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1. An automatic control system for reducing the distortion produced by a power amplifier said control system comprising means for inserting a pilot signal into the path of an input signal before delivery to said power amplifier, means for extracting a sample of the output signal from said power amplifier, means for delivering a signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal from said extracted sample r and means responsive to said signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal for automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component which is derived from said output signal 50 that when said controlled distortion component is coupled with said output signal, substantially all distortion, including said pilot signal, is cancelled leaving a substantially pure amplified signal.
2. The automatic control system of claim 1 wherein said means responsive to said signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal for automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component comprises means for comparing said amplitude of said pilot signal in two successive time intervals to determine whether said amplitude has changed and for producing a signal representative of said change, and means responsive to said signal representative of said change for adjusting said attenuation and said phase of said distortion component.
3. The automatic control system of claim 2 further comprising means for preventing said system from malfunctioning when said pilot signal is lost temporarily.
4. The automatic control system of claim 2 wherein said means responsive to said signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal further for automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component comprises means for controlling the step size of said signal representative of said change when said automatic control system is first turned on.
5. A method for automatically controlling the distortion produced by a power amplifier comprising the steps of inserting a pilot signal into the input signal before delivery to said power amplifier, extracting a sample of the output signal from said power amplifier, delivering a signal representing the amplitude of said pilot signal present in said output signal from said extracted sample, and in response to said signal represent-ing the amplitude said pilot signal present in said output signal, automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component which is derived from said output signal so that when said controlled distortion component is coupled with said output signal, substantially all distortion, including said pilot signal, is cancelled leaving a substantially pure amplified signal.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein step or automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component in response to said signal represent-ing the amplitude of said pilot signal comprises the steps of comparing said amplitude of said pilot signal in two successive time intervals to determine whether said amplitude has changed and for producing a signal representative of said change, and adjusting said attenuation and said phase of said distortion component in response to said signal representative of said change.
7. The method of claim 6 further comprising the step of preventing the amplifier system from malfunctioning when said pilot signal is lost temporarily.
8. The method of claim 6 wherein said step of automatically controlling the attenuation and phase of the distortion component further comprises the step of control-ling the step size of said signal representative of said change when said automatic control system is first turned on.
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