9 signaling and checking (supervision) apparatus and instruments; satellite transmission apparatus; apparatus for recording transmission or reproduction of sound, music, images, video, text or data; telephones, mobile phones, cellular telephones, satellite phones, automotive phones, mobile telephones for use in vehicles, smart phones, enhanced phones, wireless apparatus and networks; mobile multi-media devices; silicon chips (electronic components); application specific integrated circuits; ultra small and ultra low power silicon platforms used in the production of single silicon chips for the telecommunications and electronics industries; data processing equipment and computers; integrated circuits (chips); computer software; computer programs; computers; computer hardware; computer firmware; apparatus enabling encoding/decoding of data; lap-top computers; hand-held computers; network cards; network interface cards; PDAs (personal digital assistants); digital telecommunications apparatus and instruments; mobile and portable telecommunications apparatus; telecommunications apparatus, instruments and devices; mobile communication terminals; mobile data communications apparatus; computer chips; semiconductor chips; computer peripheral devices; product specifications in electronic form; product brochures in electronic form; computer software modules; interfaces between application programs and firmware on real-time computers; data processing software; serial communications apparatus; serial interconnect devices; clock and data recovery units; data server, server interconnect, local area network, wide area network, storage area network, metro area network; telecom (wired in telco-switches, and wireless in base-stations), backplane interconnect, chip to chip interconnect and server to server interconnect applications; personal computer local bus replacements; interconnect technology for server clusters; access points from servers to local area networks, wide area networks and storage area networks; interconnects to enable stacking of data and telecom switches; physical layer devices; chips containing differential input and output buffers, phase-locked loops, samplers, clock and data recovery blocks, encoder and decoder blocks, byte alignment blocks, channel alignment blocks, clock compensation FIFO logic, comma detect block, parallel interfaces, serializers and deserializers, transmit state machine including the SKIP insertion block and the pseudo random idle generator block, management interfaces and link initialization and training state machines; integrated and discrete chip and/or software solutions; intellectual property and semiconductor solutions covering many communications standards; slow-jitter clock synthesizers, digital clock recovery algorithms, high-speed transceivers, high-speed data converters and high-performance analog filters; peripheral interface units and peripheral sharing devices for computers; parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods