In this paper, we propose low-complexity digital predistortion (DPD) schemes based on FastGRNN to compensate for the nonlinearity of RF power amplifiers. Conventionally, high-precision recurrent neural network (RNN) models, such as long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent unit (GRU), have been used to model the behavior of amplifiers, and their excellent compensation performance has been shown in terms of error vector magnitude (EVM) and adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) has been demonstrated. However, their complex structures result in high computational complexity. To solve this issue, the proposed method is designed to significantly reduce the complexity without significant performance degradation by appropriately applying the FastGRNN models to the DPD. Complexity analysis and experiments using a power amplifier in the 2.0 GHz frequency band showed that the proposed method achieved comparable EVM performance to LSTM with 29.2% floating point operations (FLOPs) and 27.1% trainable parameters.


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    Title :

    Low-Complexity Digital Predistortion of RF Power Amplifiers Based on FastGRNN


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    Publication date :

    2023-10-10


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    1848133 byte





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    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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