A WiMedia-Compliant UWB Transceiver in 65nm CMOS.

A UWB transceiver in baseline 65nm CMOS is presented. The chip has an active area of 0.4mm2 and draws 95mA from a 1.2V supply. It achieves a NF between 5 and 5.5dB over a 3 to 8GHz bandwidth and targets MB-OFDM UWB band groups 1 and 3. The IIP3 of +5dBm and II2 of +24dBm make the design suitable for applications where interferer-robust operation is important.