Integrated Microwatt Transceivers

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring a program for Nano Mechanical Array Signal Processors (NMASP). The key focus of this program is on optimized combinations of innovative solutions in micro or nano fabrication, materials processing, device design, transduction mechanism, interconnects, and other relevant engineering approaches that directly address the performance issues in high-Q UHF mechanical resonator arrays for RF transceiver and signal processor applications.
These ultra-high frequency (UHF) (300 MHz to 3 GHz) mechanical resonators will achieve radical reductions in size and power consumption over state-of-the-art radio frequency (RF) transceivers and signal processors.
The scope of this effort is to demonstrate an ultralow power (< 1 mW average) integrated CMOS transceiver that is based on arrays of nanomechanical resonator filters.