Circuits and methods are provided for use in a wireline or wireless
transmitter to complement the digital generation of non-constant envelope
modulation signals therein. A digital signal processor is configured for
deconstructing a predetermined signal having an undesirable property into
one or more fragment signals which do not have the undesirable property.
In a preferred embodiment the predetermined signal is preconditioned by
applying a preconditioning deconstruction process to another signal from
which the predetermined signal is derived, whereby that other signal is
deconstructed into one or more preconditioned fragment signals having an
improved property over the other signal. For OFDM modulation schemes this
undesirable property may be a relatively high peak-to-average power
ratio. Signals formed from the fragment signals are subject to conversion
to analog signals and processing by power efficient, dynamic-range
limited analog circuits i.e. S Class power amplifiers (and, for wireless
applications, low compression-point up-converters), before being
recombined for transmission.