The recent allocation of the 59-64GHz band for unlicensed RF communication presents new opportunities for the design of very high throughput radio systems. The focus of this research is to design the RF system for a high throughput CMOS radio operating in this 60GHz band. Challenges related to the limited capabilities of CMOS operating at such high frequencies will be examined, and architectures and techniques well-suited to wide-band, microwave CMOS design will be proposed. Additionally, baseband analog techniques that are capable of handling very wide signal bandwidths (on the order of 1GHz) will be investigated. Of particular interest are the baud-rate sampling and clock-recovery techniques utilized in high-speed serial links. These techniques, however, would need to be modified in order to account for the time-varying multi-path wireless channel present in the 60GHz band.