Apparatus and method for adaptive multimedia reception and transmission in communication environments

A device for performing a plurality of media functional modes of a communications standard, the device comprising:

• a memory including configuration information;
• a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements, each of the heterogeneous plurality of computational elements performing an arithmetic operation and having an architecture having a layout with fixed hardware components, the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements having computational element having at least two different architectures;
• and
• an interconnection network coupled to the heterogeneous plurality of computational elements and the memory, the interconnection network changing interconnections between at least some of the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements to configure the computational elements to perform a first media functional mode in response to the configuration information, and the interconnection network further changing the interconnections between at least some of the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements to reconfigure the computational elements to perform a second, different, media functional mode in response to the configuration information.