Patent ID: 7928807

Claim:
An apparatus for wireless communications comprising: (a) an oscillator that generates an electronic signal; (b) frequency dividers; (c) frequency selectors; and (d) frequency mixers, wherein the electronic signal generated in part (a) is sequentially divided by the frequency dividers to produce a first group of frequencies, and wherein the frequency selectors and frequency mixers select and mix the first group of frequencies according to instructions from control bits to produce a second group of frequencies, wherein there are a plurality of configurations for the control bits, each of at least 14 transmission carrier frequencies of an ultra-wideband (UWB) spectrum corresponding to at least one of the configurations, the 14 transmission carrier frequencies comprising 3432, 3960, 4488, 5016, 5544, 6072, 6600, 7128, 7656, 8184, 8712, 9240, 9768, and 10296 MHz.