Application Note

WCDMA Secondary Tx Comp Vs Freq for

RTR6285™/RTR6280™

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1 Overview

1.1 Scope and Intended Audience

This application note is intended for engineers who are involved with the
RTR6285™/RTR6280™ RF platform. The note discusses an update to the calibration
procedure for the WCDMA transmit path.

1.2 References
Reference documents, which may include QUALCOMM standards and resource
documents, are listed in Table 1.

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Document Document Number

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Application Note: Factory Test Mode Common API 80-VA888-1

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Application Note: Factory Test Mode WCDMA Commands CL93-V5368-1
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2 Irregular Power Step

The basic WCDMA Tx power calibration for QCT chipsets consists of a dynamic range
sweep at a reference channel, and a frequency sweep at a reference Tx AGC Adj PDM
value, both measured for each gain range of operation. This scheme assumes that the
frequency compensation measured at the specific power level can be applied across the
entire dynamic range without introducing excess error.

Figure 1 shows the magnitude of the power step resulting from a change in PDM of one
count. Each series in the chart represents a different calibration channel across the band.
The power transition between PDM values of 149 and 150 shows that the magnitude of the
power step varies across frequency.

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Figure 1 Power sweeps across frequency

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3 Impact on ILPC
The effect on ILPC can be determined by examining how much the power step varies
between the channel under test and the reference channel. Figure 2 shows the magnitude
of the power step across PDM 149 to 150 over channel. Since linearizer calibration was
performed on channel 1407, the linearizer calibration will be applicable to the power step
at the reference channel: 1.45 dB.

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Figure 2 Power step variation over frequency

The ILPC results will demonstrate an error spike equal to the difference in power step
between the reference channel and the channel under test. For example, on channel 1482,
the power step variation shown in Figure 2 results in the ILPC error shown in Figure 3.

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Figure 3 ILPC results with no secondary frequency compensation

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4 NV Items
To compensate for the ILPC error, new NV items have been provided in AMSS to specify
an alternate set of frequency compensation to be applied to PDM values below the
irregular power step.

4.1 NV_<band>_TX_COMP_VS_FREQ_SEC_PDM_LIST_I
■ Data type: 8-bit signed
■ Data range: -128 to 127

These items contain the array of PDM switchpoints that the mobile SW will use to
determine which set of frequency compensation values it should use:
NV_<band>_TX_COMP_VS_FREQ_<range>_I or
NV_<band>_TX_COMP_VS_FREQ_<range>_SECONDARY_I.

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Populating these items with zero values (default) effectively disables secondary freq
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4.2 NV_<band>_TX_COMP_VS_FREQ_<range>_SECONDARY_I
■ Data type: 8-bit signed
■ Data range: -128 to 127

This item contains the change in Tx power of 16 channels for the lowest PA gain state.

These NV items contain the secondary frequency compensation values with a resolution
of 12 counts per dB. Each element contains the compensation for the corresponding
element in NV_<band>_TX_CAL_CHAN_I.

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5 Calibration Procedure
The goal of the calibration procedure is to apply the gain step magnitude delta to the
primary frequency compensation. The gain step magnitude delta is defined as the
difference between the gain step magnitude at the reference channel and the calibration
channel. The secondary frequency compensation is computed as the sum of the primary
frequency compensation and the gain step magnitude delta. This procedure is only
required for gain ranges where the irregular power step is within the operating region of
the linearizer.

The calibration procedure outlined here is sequenced to effectively convey the calibration
procedure. Using the FTM_TX_RX_FREQ_CAL_SWEEP to optimize the calibration
procedure for time is recommended.

The procedure for each calibration channel includes the following:

1. Calibrate the primary frequency compensation:

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– There are no changes to the primary frequency compensation procedure, but
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2. Set the Tx PDM Adj value to the value from

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3. Measure the Tx power and record the measurement as sec_comp_meas[chan].

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4. Increment the Tx PDM Adj value by one.

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6. Calculate the measurement step for each channel:

– sec_comp_step[chan] = sec_comp_meas_next[chan] - sec_comp_meas[chan]
7. Calculate the gain step magnitude delta:
– step_mag_delta[chan] = sec_comp_step[ref_chan] - sec_comp_step[chan].
8. Calculate the secondary frequency compensation as the primary frequency
compensation with the gain step magnitude delta:
– sec_comp[chan] = prim_comp[chan] + step_mag_delta[chan].
9. Calculate the NV value by converting to dB12 units:
– sec_comp_nv[chan] = ROUND(sec_comp[chan] * 12).

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