System and method for multi-threaded OFDM channel equalizer with coprocessor

1. A system for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) equalizer, said OFDM equalizer comprising one or more inputs and one or more outputs, said system comprising a program memory, a program sequencer and a processing unit connected to each other, wherein:

the processing unit comprises

an input selection unit,

an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) having one or more inputs and an output,

wherein said ALU is pipelined and has a plurality of pipeline stages,

a coprocessor and

an output selection unit;

further wherein the program sequencer

schedules the processing of one or more symbol-carrier pairs input to said OFDM equalizer using a plurality of threads,

retrieves, for each of the one or more symbol-carrier pairs, a plurality of program instructions from said program memory, and

generates a plurality of expanded instructions corresponding to said retrieved plurality of program instructions; and

further wherein

said ALU performs said processing of the one or more symbol-carrier pairs using the plurality of threads across said plurality of pipeline stages,

wherein said processing comprises

said ALU executing one or more arithmetic operations to process said expanded instructions using said plurality of threads across said plurality of pipeline stages; and

said coprocessor executing division of one by the square root of a real number.