Instant Gated Recurrent Neural Network Behavioral Model for Digital Predistortion of RF Power Amplifiers

This article presents two novel neural network models based on recurrent neural network (RNN) for radio frequency power amplifiers (RF PAs): instant gated recurrent neural network (IGRNN) model and instant gated implict recurrent neural network (IGIRNN) model. In IGRNN model, two state control units are introduced to ensure the linear transmission of hidden state and solve the problem of vanishing gradients of RNN model. In contrast with conventional RNN model, IGRNN can better describe the long-term memory effect of power amplifier, more in line with the physical distortion characteristics of power amplifier. Furthermore the instantaneous gates are used to express the input information implicitly to reduce the redundancy of the input information, and a simpler IGIRNN model is proposed. The complexity analysis indicates that the proposed models have significantly lower complexity than other RNN-based variant structures. A wideband Doherty RF PA excited by 100MHz and 120MHz OFDM signals was employed to evaluate the performance. Extensive experimental results reveal that the proposed IGRNN and IGIRNN models can achieve better linearization performance compared with RNN model and traditional GMP model, and have comparable performance with lower computational complexity compared with the state-of-the-art RNN-based variant models, such as gated recurrent unit (GRU) model.