1. An apparatus including a configurable demodulation architecture comprising: a control module including a set of one or more control fields; and a demodulation engine including: a spatial whitening module; a Minimum Mean Square Estimation (MMSE) module; at least a first Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) module; and at least one multiplexer coupled to the instruction module and controlled based on the control fields to select at least one of the MMSE module or MRC module.