An earlier type of ASIC chip that was partially finished with rows of unconnected transistors and resistors. The chip was completed by designing and adhering the top metal layers that provided the ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Booted from the high end of the ASIC market by faster, more efficient cell-based chips, and from the low end by increasingly flexible and inexpensive FPGAs, the gate array is ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — ASIC-based gate array vendors have for years been easy targets for makers of field-programmable gate arrays. But AMI Semiconductor wants to prove that gate array vendors can learn ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. When it comes to major ...

Do you speak GAL? [Peterzieba] does, and has pulled together a collection of documents and tools so that you can too. There’s a dividing line in electronic engineering education, between those who ...

Founded in 1981 by Wilfred Corrigan, Bill O’Meaa, Rob Walker and Mitchell (Mick) Bohn with $6M in venture capital from Sequoia Capital. A second round of funding in 1982 came from a number of ...