DEVICE AND METHOD TO PROCESS OFDM-BASED SYMBOLS IN WIRELESS NETWORK

A device and a method to efficiently process the symbols coded in OFDM according to the various protocols available. This is achieved through a device to process OFDM-based symbols comprising a base band input data and a base band output data, and comprising at least two programmable execution units connected to at least one working memory, this device being characterized in that, the programmable execution units (EU) are connected to the memory (M-1, M-2, M3, . . . M-N) through a memory management unit (PL_MMU), said programmable execution units (EU) having an input memory range and an output memory range, the device further comprising a state scheduler (SCH) connected to the execution units (EU) and to the memory management unit (PL_MMU), said scheduler (SCH) having means to: load the related program into the execution units (EU) thus defining the function and the input and output memory ranges of said programmable execution units (EU), assign the input and output memory range of said working memory relative to the programmable execution unit (EU) with the programmable execution unit (EU) input and output memory ranges through the memory management unit (PL_MMU) at each pipeline period, define the processing data flow of the symbols by defining the number of programmable execution units (EU) and the order in which the programmable execution units (EU) are involved.