An application-specific integrated circuit is an integrated circuit chip customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use, such as a chip designed to run in a digital voic
A tray of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips
A packet processing ASIC inside an Ethernet switch
Microscope photograph of a gate-array ASIC showing the predefined logic cells and custom interconnections. This particular design uses less than 20% of available logic gates.
Microscope photograph of custom ASIC (486 chipset) showing gate-based design on top and custom circuitry on bottom
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A system on a chip, or system on chip, is an integrated circuit that combines most or all key components of a computer or electronic system onto a single microchip. Typically, an SoC includes a centra
Application-specific integrated circuit
…entire microprocessors, memory blocks including ROM, RAM, EEPROM, flash memory and other large building blocks. Such an ASIC is often termed a SoC (system-on-chip). Designers of digital ASICs often use a hardware description language (HDL), such as Verilog or VHDL, to describe the functionality of ASICs…
An Exynos 4 Quad (4412), on the circuit board of a Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone
System on a chip AMD Élan SC450 in Nokia 9110 Communicator