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
The 7400 series is a popular logic family of transistor–transistor logic integrated circuits.
Application-specific integrated circuit
…high-efficiency video codec. Application-specific standard product chips are intermediate between ASICs and industry standard integrated circuits like the 7400 series or the 4000 series. ASIC chips are typically fabricated using metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) technology, as MOS integrated circuit chips. As feature…
The SN7400N chip contains four two-input NAND gates. The SN prefix indicates it was manufactured by Texas Instruments. The N suffix is a vendor-specific code indicating plastic DIP packaging. The second line of numbers (7645) is a date code; this chip was manufactured in the 45th week of 1976.
Texas Instruments SN5451 in the original flat package
Die of a 74AHC00D, manufactured by NXP
SN7400 die in the original flat package, manufactured by TI