ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), Types & Advantage
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ASIC [“a-sick”] is an acronym for Application Specific Integrated Circuit.
ASIC is a tailored made ICs for a particular application.
Generally an ASIC design will be undertaken for a product that will have a large production run, and the ASIC may contain a very large part of the electronics needed on a single integrated circuit.
These are usually designed from root level based on the requirement of the particular application.
Some of the basic application-specific integrated circuit examples are a chip for a toy bear that talks; a chip for a satellite; a chip designed to handle the interface between memory and a microprocessor for a workstation CPU.
These chips can be used only for that one application for which these are designed.
The main advantage of ASIC is reduced chip size as a large number of functional units of a circuit are constructed over a single chip.
Types of ASIC:
1.Full Custom
2. Semi- Custom
- Standard Cell Based
- Gate Array Based
- PLDs
- FPGAs
A microprocessor is an example of a full-custom IC.
Designers spend many hours squeezing the most out of every last square micron of microprocessor chip space by hand.
Customizing all of the IC features in this way allows designers to include analog circuits, optimized memory cells, or mechanical structures on an IC, for example.
Full-custom ICs are the most expensive to manufacture and to design.
- Standard cell-based ASIC
- Gate Array-based ASIC.
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