Analysis of digital pre-distortion with I/O interfaces for analog baseband signal over broadcasting satellites

Abstract

Broadcasting satellite systems currently use multilevel modulation schemes, which are vulnerable to non-linear distortion, while their on-board amplifiers operate near the saturation point. We have developed a digital pre-distortion (DPD) embedded transmitter and demonstrated its effectiveness over a 12-GHz-band satellite transponder. To improve its versatility, we developed an external DPD adder, which enables existing transmitter to give an analog baseband signal its function. In this study, we confirm the effectiveness of the external DPD adder by evaluating the transmission performance of 64APSK over the satellite transponder.