History of Electronics Vacum Tubes Chronology of elctronic system CMOS Technology Diode Light Emitting Diodes(LED) Gates Digital Signal Processing MOSFET Microprocessors and Microcontrollers VLSI 3D Transistors Moore's Law OP Amp Memory Application-specific integrated circuit ● ● An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is an integrated circuit (IC) customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use. Modern ASICs often include entire microprocessors, memory blocks including ROM, RAM, EEPROM, flash memory and other large building blocks. Such an ASIC is often termed a SoC (system-on-chip). Field-programmable gate array ● ● ● A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer FPGAs contain an array of programmable logic blocks, and a hierarchy of reconfigurable interconnects that allow the blocks to be "wired together", like many logic gates that can be interwired in different configurations. The FPGA configuration is generally specified using a hardware description language (HDL) Thank you