1. A wireless communications integrated circuit for providing channel coding in a wireless communication device comprising: a plurality of computation elements for performing channel coding operations; an interconnection network coupled to the plurality of computation elements, the interconnection network including switchable interconnections between the computation elements, the interconnection network transmitting configuration information and data between the computation elements; and a controller for changing the interconnections of the interconnection network to reconfigurably control the plurality of computation elements based on configuration information to achieve channel coding operations in accordance with a plurality of wireless communication standards.