IP Library Granted Patent US 8,660,820
Granted Patent B2
US 8,660,820 · App. 13/220,505 · Granted Feb 25, 2014

Distortion cancellation using adaptive linearization

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Patent No.
US 8,660,820
App. No.
13/220,505
Granted
Feb 25, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An adaptive distortion reduction system comprising: an input interface to receive a distorted signal comprising a distorted component and an undistorted component, the distorted component being at least in part attributed to an exogenous signal; and an adaptive distortion reduction module coupled to the input interface, to perform linearization based at least in part on the distorted signal and information associated with the exogenous signal, to obtain a corrected signal that is substantially similar to the undistorted component; wherein the adaptive self-linearization module includes: a first digital signal processor (DSP) that is adapted to obtain a filter transfer function that approximates a transfer function to be corrected; and a second DSP that is configured using configuration parameters of the first DSP.

Claims (29)

1. An adaptive distortion reduction system comprising:

an input interface to receive a distorted signal comprising a distorted component and an undistorted component, the distorted component being at least in part attributed to an exogenous signal; and

an adaptive distortion reduction module coupled to the input interface, to perform linearization based at least in part on the distorted signal and information associated with the exogenous signal, to obtain a corrected signal that is substantially similar to the undistorted component; wherein the adaptive distortion reduction module includes:

a first digital signal processor (DSP) having configuration parameters, and that is adapted to obtain a filter transfer function that approximates a transfer function to be corrected; and

a second DSP that is configurable using the configuration parameters of the first DSP.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein performing linearization includes adaptively generating a replica signal that is substantially similar to the distorted component.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the distorted component includes distortion attributed to the exogenous signal.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the distorted component further includes nonlinear distortion attributed to a receiver circuitry.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the information associated with the exogenous signal includes frequency information of the exogenous signal.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the exogenous signal includes a signal that is generated by a circuitry other than a receiver circuitry.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the adaptive distortion reduction module includes a separation block to separate from the distorted signal a reference component and a target component.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the undistorted component is band limited to a frequency band, and the adaptive distortion reduction module further comprises a band-specific filter to filter an unknown signal to suppress signal components within the frequency band to generate the reference component.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the undistorted component is band limited to a frequency band, and the adaptive distortion reduction module further comprises a band-specific filter that is to attenuate signal components outside the frequency band to generate the target component.

10. The system of claim 7 , wherein the separation block includes a persistence filter to aggregate the distorted signal over a period of time and generate the reference component.

11. The system of claim 7 , wherein the adaptive distortion reduction module further includes an adaptive fitter coupled to the separation block, to adaptively generate a replica distortion signal that is substantially similar to the distorted component.

12. A method of signal processing, comprising:

receiving a distorted signal comprising a distorted: component and an undistorted component, the distorted component being at least in part attributed to an exogenous signal; and

performing linearization, based at least in part on the distorted signal and information associated with the exogenous signal, to obtain a corrected signal that is substantially similar to the undistorted component; wherein performing linearization includes;

adapting a first digital signal processor (DSP) having configuration parameters to obtain a filter transfer function that approximates a transfer function to be corrected; and

configuring a second DSP using the configuration parameters of the first DSP.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein performing linearization includes adaptively generating a replica signal that is substantially similar to the distorted component.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the distorted component includes distortion attributed to the exogenous signal.

15. The method of claim 12 , wherein the distorted component further includes nonlinear distortion attributed to a receiver circuitry.

16. The method of claim 12 , wherein the information associated with the exogenous signal includes frequency information of the exogenous signal.

17. The method of claim 12 , wherein the exogenous signal includes a signal that is generated by a circuitry other than a receiver circuitry.

18. The method of claim 12 , wherein performing linearization includes separating from the distorted signal a reference component and a target component.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein performing linearization includes aggregating the distorted signal over a period of time and generating the reference component.

20. The method of claim 18 , wherein the undistorted component is band limited to a frequency band, and wherein the method further comprises configuring a band-specific filter to filter an unknown signal to suppress signal components within the frequency band to generate the reference component.

21. The method of claim 18 , wherein the undistorted component is band limited to a frequency band, and wherein the method further comprises configuring a band-specific filter that is to attenuate signal components outside the frequency band to generate the target component.

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