1. A wireless receiver comprising: a forward/backward recursive covariance based filter coefficient generating circuit for equalizing a received signal including: a forward recursion portion that receives data representing channel estimates and data representing an auto-covariance matrix, that produces a set of output values for each iteration stage of the forward recursion portion; memory, operatively coupled to the forward recursion portion that contains the set of output values; and a backward recursion portion, operatively coupled to the memory and to receive the data representing the auto covariance matrix, and that uses the set of output values from the memory and generates filter coefficients based thereon; and a filter circuit, operatively responsive to the generated filter coefficients and operative to equalize received signal information.