ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF POWER AMPLIFIER LINEARIZATION TECHNIQUES BY USING HYBRID ANALOG AND DIGITAL APPROACHES


Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Odtü Kuzey Kıbrıs Kampusu (Kktc-Güzelyurt), Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2021

Tezin Dili: Türkçe

Öğrenci: BASSAM ABDULWAHAB

Danışman: Tayfun Nesimoğlu

Özet:

Power Amplifiers (PA) are widely used in mobile communication systems, yet

power amplifiers have a non-linear region which is the major problem in all

communication and radar systems. Moreover, PAs show a low power efficiency

when operating in their linear region and are highly non-linear when operating in

their high-efficiency region. To overcome such issues, there are different methods

to linearize PAs and other methods to enhance their power efficiency. These

linearization methods are built to meet a certain linearity level for a specific

application. However, the linearization techniques are not built to cope with the

changes that might occur to the system. In this thesis an adaptive control method

for linearization techniques is proposed and will be studied and tested, the goal is to

achieve a linearization system for the PA that can maintain the desired linearity

level without compromising the efficiency. The idea of the system is to find an

intelligent way that can be added to any linearization technique to detect and

measure any changes in the system and the effect of this change on the system,

then adapt the system to overcome this change and achieve linearity. A digitally

programmable feedback control system will be added to the PA linearization technique, having a microcontroller in a feedback circuitry that will work as an

efficient detector to detect any changes on the sampled signal with accuracy as to

control an adaptive network. Accordingly, the microcontroller will decide the

voltage control changes required to maintain the required linearity.