Application Specific Integrated Circuit （ASIC） represents design and manufacture of integrated circuits to meet specific needs or particular electronic system design. Accordingly, integrated circuit can now be used instead of discrete component or different kinds of chip. Compared with the general integrated circuit, ASIC has the following advantages:
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Small in volume, light in weight, low power consumption.
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ASIC chip reduce external connection, and therefore significantly improve the reliability.
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ASIC is specially designed for particular application; system design, circuit design and process design are hence closely integrated. Such integration design is helpful to obtain the unprecedented high performance system.
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ASIC chip in the electronic product is equivalent to "black box" for users. It is difficult to counterfeit, therefore keep the confidentiality.
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Volume production greatly reduces the production cost.
