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| Dec 8, 2018 at 19:37 | comment | added | Lyx | very insightful. you're right. many analog signal processors can be asics too. but not a common ethernet IC. anyway i haven't seen any "analog" asics but i'm sure there are | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 13:07 | comment | added | Bimpelrekkie | ASIC relates any IC that is uniquely a high-level series of gates leaving the protocol logics to a microprocessor or FPGA That's nonsense, where does it say that an ASIC needs to have digital circuits (gates) to be called an ASIC? | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 22:11 | comment | added | Lyx | ASIC relates any IC that is uniquely a high-level series of gates leaving the protocol logics to a microprocessor or FPGA. lacking complete processing capabilities. Ethernet is a hardware protocol that can be decoded by an actual ASIC at your ethernet board and latched digitally to a bridge or microprocessor. In general that happens inside the IC itself but not necessarily. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 21:55 | comment | added | Bimpelrekkie | Not really a proper answer as the term "ASIC" relates to the application for which the IC is designed. most ethernets are ASIC like That is a confusing sentence, ethernet and an ASIC are different things so one cannot be "like" the other. asynchronous vs buffered has nothing to do with an IC being an ASIC or not. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 19:00 | history | answered | Lyx | CC BY-SA 4.0 |