An analog/digital pre-distorter using particle swarm optimization for RF power amplifiers

In this paper, a novel pre-distorter is presented using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) for an RF power amplifier linearization has been presented. We used the PSO in order to design of an efficient pre-distorter for the linearization of the output of an RF power amplifier by using the output data of the proposed power amplifier. The PSO is implemented to estimate and optimize the coefficient parameters of the work function in the proposed pre-distorter block diagram. The proposed method using PSO is most efficient because this approach is independent of the output of the power amplifier. The proposed method has been simulated with two-tone input signal and output power spectrum has been compared, where the obtained adjacent channel leakage ration (ACLR) is better than 50 dBc for both channels. Therefore, a quite significant improvement in linearity is achieved.