A Aplication Specific Integrated Circuit or application-specific integrated circuit, better known as ASIC for its acronym in English, is a configurable integrated circuit has been designed for a specific purpose or application specific electronic product.
With recent advances in miniaturization technologies and design tools, the maximum complexity, and hence the functionality in an ASIC has grown from 5,000 logic gates to over 100 million. Modern ASICs often include other elements such as pre:
- 32-bit processors.
- Blocks of RAM, ROM, EEPROM and flash memory .
- DSP.
- analog amplifiers.
- Other types of modules characterized by the consumer such as interfaces or encoders.
This type of ASIC is often called systems on a chip, or SoC for its acronym in English. Digital ASIC designers use hardware description languages \u200b\u200b(HDL) such as Verilog or VHDL, to describe the functionality of these devices [1]. Configuration levels of an ASIC can be in the field of physical (construction of the hardware) or logical level (configuration software) . This depends on the subset or type of ASIC that is used in Figure 1 we can see some views of an ASIC.
Figure 1: Internal view about ASIC's
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