Reconfigurable communications processor based wireless base station

As the communications market continues its rapid growth and change, equipment vendors struggle with the conflicting goals of performance, flexibility, low cost and fast time-to-market. Traditional approaches such as DSPs, ASICs, ASSPs and FPGAs all force the designer to sacrifice at least one of these key parameters. This feature proposes that a new class of components called Reconfigurable Communications Processors (RCP), which will enable designers to meet all these goals in one design for multi-channel, dataprocessing intensive application.