Patent 7170343 was granted and assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on January, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A fast LUT predistortion apparatus and method for compensating nonlinear distortion of the high power amplifier HPA is disclosed. The apparatus includes a predistortion unit for predistorting an input complex digital signal based on a look up table LUT implementation and outputting a predistorted complex signal; and a power amplifier for amplifying the predistorted signal and outputting an amplified complex signal.