The invention is directed to an apparatus, method and system for providing
reduced power consumption, fast processing of digitized communication
signals and relatively easy reconfiguration for different applications,
such as communication protocols/standards. The invention recognizes that
the processing of signals associated with different types of
communication standards can be recharacterized as deterministic data
flows. Also, for each deterministic data flow, several of the same
categories of computation are performed in substantially the same manner,
albeit in a different order or somewhat differently, that is unique to a
particular application. Based on this recharacterization, the invention
divides the processing of the deterministic data flow for a communication
signal among several Class processors that are separately configurable to
optimize their particular category/class of computation in the processing
of the signal.