AzureWave
Using software modems to enable low-cost, converged wireless
Chet Babla of Mirics Semiconductor has published a technical paper on multistandard Broadcast receivers implemented with a Mirics FlexiTV RF front end plus x86 processing for the baseband.
They implemented this on a 2.6GHz dual core x86 processor. Benchmarking standard definition (SD) DVB-T required 25% of the CPU load. The media player decoding of the SD [...]