Interleaving circuit for a multiband OFDM (orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing) transceiver of a ultra wide band wireless personal access
network transmitting OFDM modulated symbols, wherein each OFDM symbol
consists of a predetermined number (N.sub.CBPS) of encoded bits, said
interleaving circuit comprising a symbol interleaving unit which receives
an input bitstream of encoded bits and permutes adjacent bits of said
input bitstream across different OFDM symbols; an intra-symbol tone
interleaving unit which receives the bits permuted by said symbol
interleaving unit and permutes adjacent bits of each OFDM symbol across
uncorrelated data sub-carriers; and an intra-symbol cyclic shift unit
which shifts cyclically N.sub.CBPS bits of each OFDM symbol in response
to a shift value (K) which is changed between adjacent OFDM symbols.