Ultra-wideband CMOS-MEMS radio

Current ultrawideband (UWB) radios have several unsolved issues in front-end performance including difficult and expensive clock synthesizer designs, and power hungry baseband functions. In fact, the expected breakthrough of the very useful UWB technology has stalled since realized high bitrate integrated radios are much too expensive in the sense that they dissipate a lot of DC power and that their implementations require large IC areas.