The desire for low power multifunction radios for the DoD is driving interest in reconfigurable
RF architectures. While software reconfiguration is the ultimate goal, data conversion power
and dynamic range limitations imply that some of the reconfiguration has to take place in
hardware. Two RF reconfigurable hardware components that can be integrated onto a
single chip will be described in this paper. A mechanically reconfigurable capacitor is
integrated with a high Q inductor for MEMS-based LC filters that can switch between 2.6 and …