what stands for ASIC in IC's

[jigz]

please tell me what stands for ASIC........?
and what is the limit of gates in VLSI.........?
actually it is the limit for the number of gates...

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Application Specific Integrated Circuit.

Have you never heard of Google or Wikipedia?.

 

[dknguyen]

No limit on gates for VLSI...a limit on gate density perhaps...

 

[Optikon]

no limit... not true!

Limit on gate density driven by smallest feature size.. what 60nm these days?

limit on total # of gates roughly chip size * density.

limit on chip size.. 300mm wafer (not practical)