The ASIC acronym stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuits, which refers to an integrated circuit (IC or chip) tailored or customized for a specific purpose. A good example would be an ASIC designed to control the brake system in a car – this chip is designed only for this specific
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Seoul, South Korea – August 05, 2021 – Chips & Media, which focuses on video codecs, computer vision (super-resolution), and semiconductor hardware intellectual property (IP) reported the 2021 performance today.
Chips&Media’s business activities, which earn 95% of its total earnings from exports, were restricted and limited in the first quarter
Chip design is a process of designing a chip and is an essential part of electronics engineering. This process of chip design involves the knowledge of circuit design and its logic formation. All chips are made using basic elements which are known as transistors. The Metal Oxide Silicon Field Effect
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Semiconductor Intellectual Property core, commonly referred to as IP Core or IP block, is a reusable, circuit, block, or design that is the intellectual property of someone or a company. It can, however, be licensed for use by another party.
IP Cores are very common in Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
Tewksbury, MA. and Woodcliff Lake, NJ. – July 27, 2021 – Avery Design Systems, a leader in functional verification solutions, and semiconductor intellectual property supplier CAST, Inc., announced today they have expanded their partnership to offer joint solutions supporting the design and verification of automotive SoCs that utilize the emerging
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IC Insights’ Global Wafer Capacity 2021-2025 report breaks out the world’s installed monthly wafer capacity by geographic region (or country). Figure 1 shows the installed capacity by region as of December of 2020.
To clarify what the data represents, each regional number is the total installed monthly capacity of fabs located