Imec and Renesas Electronics have teamed up to concoct what they call a highly linear reconfigurable transceiver that eliminates the need for surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters. Dubbed Scaldio, the device represents a move toward fully reconfigurable radios by relaxing the requirements of the antenna filters. This fully reconfigurable transceiver is compatible with multiple wireless standards including 3GPP-LTE. Specs include a 3-dB noise figure, the ability to handle a 0-dBm blocker at a 20-MHz offset, a linearity of +10 dBm IIP3, +70 dBm IIP2, and an RX band noise down to –162 dBc/Hz.