EP1897225A1 - Retard emetteur et reglage de phase - Google Patents

Retard emetteur et reglage de phase

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EP1897225A1
EP1897225A1 EP06764529A EP06764529A EP1897225A1 EP 1897225 A1 EP1897225 A1 EP 1897225A1 EP 06764529 A EP06764529 A EP 06764529A EP 06764529 A EP06764529 A EP 06764529A EP 1897225 A1 EP1897225 A1 EP 1897225A1
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transmitter
signal
signals
digital
timing
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Marko Leukkunen
Kauko Heinikoski
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Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B1/00—Details of transmission systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04B3/00 - H04B13/00; Details of transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission
    • H04B1/02—Transmitters
    • H04B1/04—Circuits
    • H04B1/0475—Circuits with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • 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
    • H03F1/3241—Modifications of amplifiers to reduce non-linear distortion using predistortion circuits
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F1/00—Details of amplifiers with only discharge tubes, only semiconductor devices or only unspecified devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F1/34—Negative-feedback-circuit arrangements with or without positive feedback
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F3/00—Amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F3/20—Power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers
    • H03F3/21—Power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers with semiconductor devices only
    • H03F3/211—Power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers with semiconductor devices only using a combination of several amplifiers
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    • H03F3/00—Amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F3/20—Power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers
    • H03F3/24—Power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers of transmitter output stages
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    • H04B1/02—Transmitters
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    • H04B1/0483—Transmitters with multiple parallel paths
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F2200/00—Indexing scheme relating to amplifiers
    • H03F2200/451—Indexing scheme relating to amplifiers the amplifier being a radio frequency amplifier
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    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F2203/00—Indexing scheme relating to amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements covered by H03F3/00
    • H03F2203/20—Indexing scheme relating to power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers
    • H03F2203/21—Indexing scheme relating to power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers with semiconductor devices only
    • H03F2203/211—Indexing scheme relating to power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers with semiconductor devices only using a combination of several amplifiers
    • H03F2203/21106—An input signal being distributed in parallel over the inputs of a plurality of power amplifiers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F2203/00—Indexing scheme relating to amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements covered by H03F3/00
    • H03F2203/20—Indexing scheme relating to power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers
    • H03F2203/21—Indexing scheme relating to power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers with semiconductor devices only
    • H03F2203/211—Indexing scheme relating to power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers with semiconductor devices only using a combination of several amplifiers
    • H03F2203/21112—A filter circuit being added at the input of a power amplifier stage
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B1/00—Details of transmission systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04B3/00 - H04B13/00; Details of transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission
    • H04B1/02—Transmitters
    • H04B1/04—Circuits
    • H04B2001/0408—Circuits with power amplifiers
    • H04B2001/0425—Circuits with power amplifiers with linearisation using predistortion
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B1/00—Details of transmission systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04B3/00 - H04B13/00; Details of transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission
    • H04B1/02—Transmitters
    • H04B1/04—Circuits
    • H04B2001/0408—Circuits with power amplifiers
    • H04B2001/0433—Circuits with power amplifiers with linearisation using feedback

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  • the invention relates to transmitter technology. Especially, the invention relates to improving delay and phase adjustment of a radio signal in a transmitter.
  • a transmitter's such as a base station's, output power can basically be increased in two alternative ways; either by introducing components that are capable of providing the desired output signal or by using low- power components that process the same signal and whose outputs are adjusted to the same level and combined with an output signal of the transmitter. The latter is often a more advantageous way due to potential savings in view of costs of the transmitter.
  • a digital predistortion transmitter is a transmitter where the distortion caused by a power amplifying step of a transmitter unit is feedback to digital form and compensated digitally by summing a digital opposite distortion element to the signal.
  • a transmitter including at least two transmitter units, each transmitter unit being configured to input an instance of a digital transmit signal, convert the digital transmit signal to an analog radio signal, amplify the analog radio signal, output the amplified radio signal, wherein the transmitter is configured to determine a timing difference between the output signals of the transmitter units, and adjust timing of at least one of the input signals, so that a predetermined criterion is fulfilled.
  • a base station including at least two transmitter units, each transmitter unit including means for inputting an instance of a digital transmit signal, means for converting the digital transmit signal to an analog radio signal, means for amplifying the analog radio signal.
  • the base station further includes means for determining a timing difference between the amplified signals, and means for adjusting timing of at least one of the input signals, so that a predetermined criterion is fulfilled.
  • a mobile station including at least two transmitter units, each transmitter unit including means for inputting an instance of a digital transmit signal, means for converting the digital transmit signal to an analog radio signal, means for amplifying the analog radio signal.
  • the mobile station further includes means for determining a timing difference between the amplified signals, and means for adjusting timing of at least one of the input signals, so that a predetermined criterion is fulfilled.
  • a method for processing a signal in a transmitter including steps of: inputting an instance of the same digital input signal into at least two transmitter units, converting, in each transmitter unit, the digital transmit signal to an analog radio signal and amplifying the analog radio signals, determining a timing difference between the amplified signals, and adjusting timing of at least one of the input signals, so that a predetermined quality criterion is fulfilled.
  • a software product including software code portions for implementing steps of: inputting an instance of the same digital input signal into at least two transmitter units, converting, in each transmitter unit, the digital transmit signal to an analog radio signal and amplifying the analog radio signals, determining a timing difference between the amplified signals, adjusting timing of at least one of the input signals so that a predetermined quality criterion is fulfilled.
  • the invention relates to a delay and phase power control mechanism for a network element in a mobile network.
  • the mobile network according to the invention can be Universal Mobile Telephony System (UMTS) employing Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) radio technology, for instance, without restricting the invention to such a network.
  • UMTS Universal Mobile Telephony System
  • WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
  • the network element according to the invention can be a base station/Node B or a mobile terminal.
  • each transmitter unit provides an analog amplified signal.
  • the timing differences, that is delay and phase differences, of the amplified signals are determined and corrected if needed so that a predetermined quality criterion is fulfilled.
  • the inventive idea is used to increase output power from the transmitter by combining outputs of the transmitter units.
  • the inventive concept may be used in a smart antenna system to calibrate accurate phase and delay for different antenna elements.
  • the outputs of the transmitter units are directly compared.
  • the outputs of the transmitter units are summed to a sum signal and the respective delays of the signals are determined from the sum signal.
  • the signal of which the delays and phases of the separate signals are determined can also be a filtered sum signal, for instance.
  • the invention provides several advantages. First, there is no need to calibrate the transmitter delay and phase during the manufacture of the transmitter. Furthermore, the timing (delay and phase) adjustment is adaptive and therefore the transmitter tolerates well negative effects of aging and temperature, for instance. In the transmitter according to the invention, the combined power is easy to keep on the optimum level.
  • Figure 1 is one embodiment of a network according to the invention.
  • Figure 2 illustrates one embodiment of a method
  • Figure 3 illustrates another embodiment of a method
  • Figure 4 shows an embodiment of a network element according to the invention
  • Figure 5 shows another embodiment of a network element according to the invention.
  • Figure 6 shows one embodiment of a transmitter unit according to the invention
  • Figure 7 shows another embodiment of a transmitter according to the invention.
  • Figure 8 shows one embodiment of a summing unit
  • Figure 9 highlights the summed output of two signals.
  • the network is a UMTS network applying WCDMA technology.
  • WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
  • the WCDMA can structurally be divided into a core network (CN) 100, a UMTS terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) 120, and user equipment (UE) 140.
  • the core network and the UTRAN are part of the network infrastructure of the wireless telecommunications system.
  • the core network includes a serving GPRS support node (SGSN) 102 connected to the UTRAN over an Iu PS interface.
  • the SGSN represents the center point of the packet-switched domain of the core network, and the main task of the SGSN is to transmit/receive packets to/from the user equipment using the UTRAN.
  • the SGSN may contain subscriber and location information related to the user equipment.
  • the UTRAN can include at least one radio network subsystem (RNS) 122A, 122B, each of which includes at least one radio network controller (RNC) 124A, 124B and at least one Node B 126A to 126D controlled by the RNC.
  • RNC radio network controller
  • the Node B implements the Uu radio interface, through which the user equipment may access the network infrastructure.
  • the user equipment or the mobile terminal may include two parts, which are mobile equipment (ME) 142 and a UMTS subscriber identity module (USIM) 144.
  • the mobile equipment includes radio frequency parts 146 for providing the Uu-interface.
  • the user equipment can further include a digital signal processor 148, memory 150, and computer programs for executing computer processes.
  • the user equipment may further include an antenna, a user interface, and a battery.
  • the USIM comprises user-related information and information related to information security, such as an encryption algorithm.
  • Figures 2 and 3 illustrate embodiments of a method according to the invention.
  • Figure 2 shows an embodiment, where there are two transmitter units, each processing an instance of the same transmit signal. Practically, the situation may be such that each of the two transmitters provides approximately half of the total output power of the transmitter.
  • One of these two transmitter units is, in conjunction with Figure 2, called a master unit and the other one is called a slave unit.
  • the master unit is arranged to receive a portion of the signal processed by the slave unit. Additionally, the master is arranged to extract a portion of the signal processed by itself.
  • the master and slave signal components may be extracted from amplified analog signals, which are converted back to digital form to be digitally processed in the master.
  • the master unit compares the delays and phases of the signal components, one extracted from the signal processed by the master and one processed by the slave. If the delays and phases of the signal components are aligned, that is essentially equal, there is no need for adjustment of either of the signal components. However, if the delays and phases of the signal components differ from each other, the master signal's delay and/or phase may be adjusted as shown by 210. In one embodiment, adjustment of delay and phase are performed successively so that delays of the signals are adjusted first, and fine-tuning, that is phase adjustment, is made afterwards.
  • a quality criterion is used for determining when the delays and phases of the signal components are aligned with each other.
  • the master may sum the signal components and compare the sum with a predetermined power threshold. If the threshold value set for the power level of the sum signal is exceeded, the master may conclude that the signal components processed by the master and the slave are aligned with each other. If the threshold value of the sum signal power level is not reached, the delay and phase of the master signal may be digitally adjusted.
  • the method of Figure 2 may be continuously applied in the transmitter.
  • Figure 3 shows another embodiment of the method according to the invention.
  • the initial values for the signals are determined.
  • the method of Figure 2 may be applied to obtain initial adjustment for the signal components processed by the master and the slave.
  • the method starting from 304 can be applied.
  • the amplified analog signal components processed by the master and slave transmitter units are summed to a sum signal and the sum signal is feedback to the master transmitter unit.
  • the master determines the respective delays and phases of the signal components. Determination of delays and phases may be done in such a way, for instance, that the master toggles between having the master signal component processed and ceased. That is, at a first moment of time the master component is processed and the sum signal feedback to the transmitter unit acting as the master unit includes also the master signal. At a second moment of time, processing of the master signal component is stopped. The sum signal then includes only the slave signal component. By comparing the sum signals obtained at the first and second moments of time, the master unit can determine the delay and phase of the master signal component in comparison with the slave component.
  • the master evaluates if the master and slave signal components are aligned in time. If not, timing of the master signal is digitally adjusted in such a way that a predetermined quality criterion set for the alignment is fulfilled, as shown by step 310.
  • Figures 2 and 3 refer to two transmitter units, it is clear that there may be more of them. Furthermore, in contrary to embodiments disclosed in Figures 2 and 3, the delay and phase control need not be situated in a master transmitter unit but there can be a separate delay/phase adjustment block that does not integrally belong to any transmitter unit. Furthermore, the master transmitter unit needs not be the same all the time but the location of the functionality may alternate between different transmitter units.
  • FIG. 4 shows one embodiment of a transmitter 400 according to the invention.
  • the transmitter may be a network element, such as a base station or a Node B, or the transmitter may be a mobile station.
  • the embodiment refers to a transmitter where the predistortion principle is implemented in hardware.
  • a feedback path is used to measure differences in delay and phase of two transmitter lines to be combined.
  • the transmitter includes two transmitter units 410 and 440, which can be locked to the same reference clock signal. That is, the input signals to the transmitter units are exactly aligned in time with each other.
  • Digital predistortion-based transmitters have functions to control transmitter delay/phase in a digital domain very accurately.
  • the transmitter unit 410 is called a master unit and the unit 440 is called a slave unit.
  • the slave unit 440 includes an output port in a switching block 452, via which output port the signal processed by the slave unit 440 is conveyed to an input (monitor) port located in a switching block 422 of the master unit 410.
  • the transmitter chain of the master can include an input port for receiving an instance of the transmit signal.
  • the input port can be in the delay and phase estimation block 412, from which the signal is fed to a digital to analog-converter 414.
  • the signal is modulated in a modulating unit 418 and forwarded to a power amplifier 420.
  • a coupler (not shown) may divide the signal between the summing unit 460 and the switching unit 422. From the switch 422 the signal may be conveyed to a demodulation unit 424, which includes functionality related to down-conversion of the signal to intermediate frequency.
  • the signal is then filtered in a filtering unit 426 and converted to digital form in an analog-to-digital converter 428.
  • the digital signal is then transferred then to the timing adjustment unit 412 for alignment of delay and phase of at least one of the signal components processed in the transmitter units 410 and 440.
  • the delay and phase estimation block 412 may receive input also from the slave transmitter unit 440.
  • the slave transmitter unit processes another instance of the same input signal as the master unit 410.
  • the functionality of the slave transmitter unit can be the same as the functionality of the master unit, that is the digital input signal is converted to an analog signal, filtered, modulated and amplified in respective units 444, 446, 448 and 450.
  • the feedback chain 454, 456 and 458 would not be necessary because the slave signal is conveyed to the master unit 410 so that the delay and phase of the master signal can be adjusted, if needed.
  • the transmitter units 410 and 440 have equal functionalities so that any transmitter unit may take over or implement the master functionality, if need be.
  • adjustment and measurement of the delay and phase can be adaptive, and an optimal combined power level can thus be maintained.
  • the transmitter's delay and phase calibration is not needed, since the phase and the delay can be adjusted adaptively during the normal operation based on the signal samples received from the monitor port of the master unit.
  • Delay and phase measurement is also very accurate, since the same feedback unit is used to measure both the slave and master units' delay and phase.
  • Figure 5 shows another embodiment of a transmitter according to the invention. With regard to functionality of different units in the transmitter 500, reference is made to the corresponding elements in Figure 4. The embodiment in Figure 5 differs from the embodiment in Figure 4 in that there is a feedback link from the summing unit 560 to the delay and phase estimation block 512.
  • the principle in Figure 5 is such that, in the initialization phase, the delay and phase adjustment is performed using only the master and slave signals.
  • the master and slave signals are fed to the timing adjustment block 512 for adjustment of the delay and phase of the input signals.
  • the slave signal is fed to the delay and phase estimation block 512 via the switching units 552 and 522.
  • the master signal is correspondingly conveyed to the delay and phase estimation block 512 via the switching unit 522.
  • the delay and phase adjustment of the transmitter is done using the sum signal obtained from the summing unit 560.
  • the delay and phase estimation block 512 receives the sum signal, which is converted to a digital sum signal in the switching unit 522, and the feedback master signal. By toggling the master signal on and off, the respective delays of the master and slave signals can be determined from the sum signal. Alternatively, the master signal can be sub- tracted from the sum signal, whereby the slave signal can be determined. On the basis of the sum signal, the master unit can adjust Its own delay and phase to keep the summing quality at a specified level.
  • the summing unit 560 detects the delay and phase difference between the signals processed in the transmitter units 510 and 540. In this embodiment, the summing unit can directly inform the timing unit 512 about the timing difference, which is highlighted by the connecting line between the summing unit 560 and timing unit 512.
  • Figures 6 and 7 show two embodiments for measuring the timing difference of two signals.
  • the signals from transmitter units 610 and 640 are forwarded to respective transmit antenna elements 660 and 662.
  • Transmit antenna elements are connected to a delay and phase adjustment unit 612 by respective measurement lines 664 and 666.
  • the electrical lengths of the measurement lines are known, and thus the delay and phase adjustment of the adjustment unit is made possible.
  • Figure 7 resembles the structure in Figure 6, but now connecting lines 764 and 766 lead to a switching unit 722.
  • the electrical lengths of the connecting lines 764 and 766 are matched, that is they are either equal or the electrical length difference is known.
  • the antenna lines may be of a predetermined electrical length so that the timing error is caused between the power amplifiers and the antenna elements and can thus be determined.
  • FIG. 6 and 7 are suitable to be used in a smart antenna system.
  • Smart antenna systems are well known in the art and need not be explained in detail here.
  • the basic idea in a smart antenna system is to combine the signal processing capability of multiple antenna elements to adapt transmit/receive radiation patterns to the signal propagation environment. The goal is to increase gain according to the location of the user.
  • Smart antenna systems can generally be classified to switched beams of adaptive array systems.
  • switched beam systems the signal strength is detected and one of several predetermined fixed beams is selected.
  • the active beam may be changed when the mobile moves in the system.
  • Adaptive array systems take advantage of locating and tracking various types of signals to dynamically minimize interference and maximize the reception of the desired signal.
  • the inventive concept of being able to exactly determine the timing difference between the signals processed in different transmitter units can advantageously be utilized in a smart antenna system.
  • Each transmitter unit can be connected to an antenna element, each having a radiation pattern.
  • the transmitter can adjust the timing of the input signals to different transmitter units so that a combination of radiation patterns of at least two antenna elements produces a desired radiation pattern, such as a transmit beam.
  • the signals directed to different transmit antennas, which are used when forming a beam can be exactly aligned with each other in time.
  • the power of the sum signal is maximized until a predetermined criterion is fulfilled.
  • the aim is to minimize the power directed to a loss port, whereby power of the sum signal is maximized.
  • Figure 8 shows a summing unit 860, which receives input signals 800 and 802 from two transmitter units.
  • the summing port 804 outputs the effective sum signal of the two input signals 800 and 802.
  • the rest of the input power, that is dissipated power, is directed to an excess port 806.
  • Figure 9 demonstrates the output of summing of two input signals.
  • the x-axis shows the timing difference between the input signals, and the y- axis shows the level of the output power.
  • Curve 900 shows the sum output power and curve 902 illustrates dissipated power.
  • the timing difference 904 about 275 time units, simultaneously maximizes the sum output power and minimizes the dissipated power.
  • the maximum sum output power or the minimum dissipated power might be used as a criterion.
  • the invention including different means for carrying out functions in a transmitter, a base station or a mobile station may be implemented by software, which is loadable and executable in a processor.
  • the software may be packaged to a software product including software code portions for imple- meriting steps of the invention.
  • the invention may be implemented in ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) or by separate logic components.
  • the invention may be implemented on a processor or a chipset in a transmitter.
  • the invention may be implemented on a module mountable to a transmitter.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un émetteur comprenant au moins deux unités émettrices, chacune d'elles étant configurée pour entrer une instance de signal de transmission numérique afin de convertir ledit signal en un signal radio analogique, et pour amplifier ledit signal radio numérique. L'émetteur est configuré afin de déterminer une différence de temporisation (208) entre les signaux amplifiés, et de régler la temporisation (210) d'au moins l'un des signaux d'entrée de façon à remplir un critère prédéterminé.
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