Computer software and firmware for manipulating digital information resulting from the analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion of physical phenomena and the information resulting from algorithms, tests, simulations, and manipulations operating on the A/D converted data; computer software and firmware programs for data acquisition, control, and analysis, and presentation of data; instruments in the nature of semiconductor A/D converter components, namely, A/D converters and D/A converters, semiconductor digital signal sampler components, namely, filters, counters, timers, A/D converters, D/A converters, and digitizers, and transceiver components, namely, communication buses and networks, memory interfaces, serializers and deserializers, data buffers, media access controllers, physical coding devices, physical medium attachment devices, error detectors and correctors for the measurement, collection and digitization of data; instruments in the nature of I/O control modules, semiconductor control circuitry components, namely, sensors, filters, counters, and amplifiers, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and timing and synchronization circuitry components in the nature of oscillators and timebases, phase lock loops, direct digital synthesizers, digital resamplers, clock disciplining systems, GPS systems, counters, timers, and signal analyzers, which control external devices in association with acquisition and processing of data; sensors and actuators attached to computers which control and present acquired and measured data, and instruction manuals sold therewith