semiconductors and semiconductor cores, semiconductor intellectual property cores; application specific virtual components, namely, components for the acquisition, multiplexing, transmission, encoding, compression, filtering, transformation, combination, decompression, decoding, demultiplexing, and reception of sensory and communications data; integrated circuits, namely, integrated circuits for multi-media and communication systems-on-chip integrated circuits; computer hardware comprising dedicated computing hardware resources that perform digital signal processing type operations for multi-media and communication type applications and computer software, namely, software for use in the field of digital signal processing for multi-media and communication applications; digital processors and digital processing integrated circuits, namely, video and image processing integrated circuits, speech signal processing integrated circuits, application specific processors, error correction and channel coders, modulation and demodulation apparatus which provides digital baseband processing functions that perform modulation and demodulation for wireless and wired applications and evaluation apparatus, namely, system-on-chip and field programmable gate array (FPGA) based evaluation systems for imaging, video and communications