On Amplitude Drift Compensation Month Year doc.: IEEE 802.11-yy/xxxxr0 September 2017 On Amplitude Drift Compensation Date: 2017-09-01 Authors: Name Affiliation Address Phone Email Jianhan Liu Frank Hsu Thomas Pare Mediatek jianhan.Liu@mediatek.com frank.hsu@mediatek.com thomas.pare@mediatek.com Hongyuan Zhang Marvell hongyuan@marvell.com Bin Tian Qualcomm btian@qti.qualcomm.com Ron Porat Broadcom ron.porat@broadcom.com Xiaogang Chen Intel xiaogang.c.chen@intel.com Ross Yu David Yang Huawei ross.yujian@huawei.com david.yangxun@huawei.com Jinsoo Choi LGE js.choi@lge.com Yujin Noh Minho Cheong Newracom yujin.noh@newracom.com minho.cheong@newracom.com Bo Sun ZTE sun.bo1@zte.com.cn Tianyu Wu Samsung Jianhan Liu, etc., Mediatek John Doe, Some Company

EVM test with amplitude drift September 2017 EVM test with amplitude drift It is noticed that EVM degradation caused by amplitude drift can be pretty large. HT and VHT devices on the market allow amplitude drift compensation in the EVM test. For HE products, it is reasonable to reduce EVM degradation caused by amplitude drift. Therefore 11ax added the following requirement to the EVM test : The text in the 11ax draft 1.2 (28.3.18.4.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test) says: d) Symbols in a PPDU shall be derotated according to estimated frequency offset. Sampling offset drift shall be also compensated. Note that amplitude drift shall not be compensated by the testing instrument. Jianhan Liu, etc., Mediatek

EVM degradation caused amplitude drift September 2017 EVM degradation caused amplitude drift Amplitude drift is caused by PA self-heating. Even with enhanced PA design, it is hard to reduce amplitude drift to zero. For MCS 10 and 11, EVM is below -35dB. It can be seen that the lower the EVM, the more sensitive to amplitude drift. For example, for 0.05dB delta amplitude drift: EVM degrades from -38dB to -35dB EVM degrades from -31dB to -30dB. It is not a easy task to control the delta amplitude drift smaller than 0.05dB! Jianhan Liu, etc., Mediatek

More reasons on relaxing EVM requirements caused amplitude drift September 2017 More reasons on relaxing EVM requirements caused amplitude drift WiFi receivers can have Amplitude/Phase/Frequency tracking capability. Completely disallowing the amplitude tracking in the test does not reflect the true condition of some receivers. Completely disallowing amplitude drift compensations increase the cost and power consumptions of PA, for example, PA need to be built with very accurate temperature measurement and gain compensation circuits to avoid the amplitude drift caused by PA self-heating. HT and VHT devices on the market allows amplitude drift compensation in the EVM test and we did not see inter-operable problem caused by amplitude drift compensation . Jianhan Liu, etc., Mediatek

Minimize the change of the 11ax spec. September 2017 Minimize the change of the 11ax spec. Only change the EVM test for MCS 10-11 with amplitude drift: Only low EVMs are sensitive to amplitude drift; Avoid change of -27dBm for HE TB PPDU. Jianhan Liu, etc., Mediatek

Suggested changes on EVM test September 2017 Suggested changes on EVM test Putting an requirement on EVM degradation caused by amplitude drift for HE products is a good move, but making the requirement too strict may hurt the industry. Given there are no HE products on the mass production yet, it is hard to guarantee that HE products can reduce the amplitude drift to zero. Note that even 0.01dB amplitude drift can cause 0.5dB EVM change in very low EVM regions. To reduce the risk for HE products and also avoid huge EVM degradation caused by amplitude drift, we propose to relax the 28.3.18.4.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test) for MCS10-11 (1024QAM). Jianhan Liu, etc., Mediatek