1. A hardware accelerator operable to support equalization processing within a wireless terminal, comprising: an equalizer interface that receives an incoming baseband signal and configuration information from a baseband processor operably coupled to the equalizer processing module, and outputs soft decisions, wherein the equalizer interface further comprises configuration registers, input buffers, and output buffers; a dedicated processor configured based on the contents of the configuration register operably coupled to the equalizer interface, wherein the dedicated processor is operable to perform compute intensive operations on contents of the input buffer and provides results to the output buffer; and wherein processing of the incoming baseband signal to produce soft decisions is performed by the combination of the baseband processor and the hardware accelerator module.