_ Department of Integrated Circuits (ASIC)

Industrial Application Specific Integrated Circuit  (ASIC) -  A compactly packaged electronic circuit 

Researcher  and author: Dr.   (  Afshin Rashid)



Note: An industrial application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is a compactly packaged electronic circuit designed to simplify the overall circuit design.  In some cases , it also prevents reverse  operation of an existing application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). For example, many products use a special purpose chip to control the product. Almost all gadgets, such as computers, cell phones, and other digital devices, use at least one ASIC. This circuit is significantly different from a general purpose integrated circuit (IC).

Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are often used in complex circuit applications. Higher density semiconductor chips  are often preferred in electronics manufacturing. This results in newer products with general-purpose chips and  application-specific integrated circuits with fewer parts and a smaller size or footprint. An exception is high-power or special-purpose semiconductors that require separate mounting from the rest of the on-board components. If general-purpose parts of the circuit can be integrated into a smaller package, the result is usually an application-specific integrated circuit. Integrated circuit for industrial use (ASIC) It is a very small electronic circuit that operates at separate voltage levels and is installed in a small package. It usually works with a low voltage direct current (DC) power supply. Typical supply voltages are 5 and 3.3 volts (V). Previous digital integrated circuits worked on a 12 volt power supply. Various types of semiconductors, resistors and capacitors are used in the construction  of industrial integrated circuit (ASIC)  . The simplest digital integrated circuit can be a 14-pin linear dual package chip or microchip that has six internal digital inverters. Each inverter uses one pin for input and one pin for output. The inverter outputs "HIGH" when a "LOW" is applied to the input, but the output is "LOW" when an "HIGH" is applied to the input. That is why it is called an inverter.


Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)  that perform a variety of functions, including mathematical calculations, using the binary number system. In an 8-bit microcomputer, a set of 8 bits is called a byte. Each byte can represent a number from 0 to 255 or can represent -128 to +127. In certain arithmetic modes known as binary-coded decimal, a byte can represent a number from 00 to 99.

Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)  perform  a variety of important industrial  functions  such as amplification, signal conversion, and detection. An industrial application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)  operating at the digital level can detect the digital equivalent of analog signals using a converter. An analog-to-digital (A/D) converter is a combination analog-digital circuit that inputs an analog level and outputs a multi-bit digital equivalent of the analog sample. For example, an A/D converter on an  industrial application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)  might sample a 24-volt direct current (VDC) voltage and produce a byte with the bit values ​​"00011000", which is "24".

An industrial application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)  digital-to-analog (D/A) converter is a simpler circuit that may not require an integrated circuit. A D/A converter can be made using passive devices such as resistors and analog amplifiers. When space is limited, a D/A converter chip may be a practical choice. Many circuits and devices are used in digital electronics. An industrial application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)  uses registers, which are sets of digital latches that hold a single bit. A 16-bit processor uses 16 of these latches, each of which remembers only 1 bit. For memory applications, semiconductor density in  industrial application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)  internal memory chips.It has increased to more than a few tens of gigabytes per square inch. Each gigabyte equals one billion bytes and each billion bytes equals 8 billion bits.

Researcher  and author: Dr.   (   Afshin Rashid)

Specialized doctorate in nano-microelectronics