Includes Bibliographical References and Index

Introduction -- A multimode radio transceiver for cellular applications -- Reconfigurable multi-band OFDM UWB receivers: circuits and systems considerations -- Low power UWB circuits: front-end building blocks -- CMOS IR-UWB transceiver system design for contact-less chip testing applications -- Multi-mode power amplifiers for wireless handset applications -- Polyphase multipath circuits for cognitive radio and flexible multi-phase clock generation -- IIP2 improvement techniques for multi-standard mobile radio -- Multi-standard continuous-time sigma-delta converters for 4G radios -- Power efficient reconfigurable baseband filters for multimode radios -- An adaptive digital front-end for multi-mode wireless receivers -- FEC decoders for future wireless devices: scalability issues and multi-standard capabilities.