The baseband processor is usually a 300-500MHz Arm11 or Mips core with a DSP and many hardware accelerators.

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Some HSM systems are also hardware cryptographic accelerators.

The registers allow detecting, enabling or disabling the hardware accelerator (if it is available).

Many hardware accelerators are built on top of field-programmable gate array chips.

Work continues on specialized hardware accelerators in an aim to solve the problem.

Based on a set of compiler directives, standard is a programming model designed to handle hardware accelerators without the complexity associated with GPU programming.

This approach based on directives has been implemented because they enable a loose relationship between an application code and the use of a hardware accelerator (HWA).

A directive declares a computation to be remotely executed on a hardware accelerator.

H.264 is much more widespread in software tools, hardware accelerators, and so on: it's enormously widespread already.