Patent ID: 8086182

Claim:
A wireless transceiver comprising: a programmable antenna, that transmits an outbound radio frequency (RF) signal containing outbound data to a remote RF transceiver and that receives an inbound RF signal containing inbound data from the remote RF transceiver, wherein the programmable antenna is configurable to a selected one of a plurality of antenna configurations, based on a control signal; an antenna interface coupled to the programmable antenna; at least one RF transceiver section, coupled to the antenna interface, that generates the outbound RF signal based on the outbound data and that generates the inbound data based on the inbound RF signal, the at least one RF transceiver section including at least one power amplifier having an output section that includes a first plurality of tunable inductors that impedance match the output section to the antenna interface; wherein the at least one RF transceiver section further includes a plurality of low noise amplifiers including at least one low noise amplifier having an input section that includes a second plurality of tunable inductors that impedance match the input section to the antenna interface, and wherein the at least one RF transceiver section further includes a switching matrix that selectively couples one of the plurality of low noise amplifiers to the antenna interface, in response to a mode signal.