What Is an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)?

Learn what ASICs are and how hardware companies use them to improve performance and reduce energy consumption.

ASIC Miners Explained: The Machines Powering Modern Crypto Mining

What are ASIC miners? Know how Application-Specific Integrated Circuits power Bitcoin mining, improve energy efficiency, and ...
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Design specification: The cornerstone of an ASIC collaboration

Engaging with an ASIC development partner can take many forms. The intended chip may be as simple as a microcontroller, as sophisticated as an AI-based edge computing system-on-chip (SoC), or even a ...
Electronic Design

Structured ASICs

So what’s a STRUCTURED ASIC? A Structured ASIC is a type of integrated circuit that contains blocks of logic, called "tiles." These tiles reside in the die ready to be connected in a customizable ...
Electronic Design

Dirt Cheap ASIC Design for Dummies (Part 3): NMOS, PMOS Silicon Design Using a Web Browser

Quickly learn what the difference is between PMOS and NMOS transistors in their structure and operation, and how CMOS works with the two in combination. Siliwiz, a free, browser-based, ASIC layout ...
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Is Platypus from Zero ASIC the FPGA equivalent to RISC-V?

Before I tell you what I’m about to tell you, let’s first refresh our minds as to RISC-V processors. Why? Well, because even though what I’m about to tell you has nothing to do with RISC-V per se, in ...