APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

Abstract:

This paper represents a latest trend technology in the Integrated Circuit world. The technology is known as an ASIC (“a-sick”) is application specific integrated circuit, which plays a vital role in present day electronic systems. Application specific integrated circuits are squeezed into a single chip, reducing system size, power, heat and cost. This technology is possible because of computer tools that helps humans design chip much more quickly.

Introduction:

The most interesting development in integrated circuit technology for the average digital design are not the ever increasing chip sizes, but the ever-increasing opportunities to “design your own chip”. Chips designed for a particular limited product or application are called semicustom IC or ASICs. ASIC generally reduce total component and manufacturing cost of a product by reducing chip count, physical size and power consumption. They also provide higher performance.
ASIC is a technology, which is simulated with the help of VHDL, ABEL and VERILOG etc. It may be in the form of logic equations, state tables or state diagrams.