Patent ID: 8437697

Claim:
A transmitter, comprising: a first digital processing branch configured to process an in-phase component of a digital input signal to provide a processed in-phase signal; a second digital processing branch configured to process a quadrature-phase component of the digital input signal to provide a processed quadrature-phase signal; a compressive nonlinearity module configured to amplitude compress the processed in-phase signal and the processed quadrature-phase signal to provide an amplitude compressed in-phase signal and an amplitude compressed quadrature-phase signal, respectively; a first analog processing branch configured to process the amplitude compressed in-phase signal to provide a processed amplitude compressed in-phase signal; a second analog processing branch configured to process the amplitude compressed quadrature-phase signal to provide a processed amplitude compressed quadrature-phase signal; an upconverter module configured to frequency translate the processed amplitude compressed in-phase signal and the processed amplitude compressed quadrature-phase signal to provide a frequency translated baseband signal; and an amplifier, having a rated power level, configured to amplify the frequency translated baseband signal to a power level that is greater than the rated power level.