There seem to be a lot of commercial cores available in the data comm 
arena, so I think some of these would be good targets for OpenCore    
implementation:                                                       
                                                                      
* Convolutional Encoder (trivial; done)                               
* Reed-Solomon Encoder (moderately hard)                              
* Reed-Solomon Decoder (hard)                                         
* Viterbi Decoder (quite hard)                                        
                                                                      
Ideas? Comments?                                                      
                                                                      
--Chris