The technological requirements for application specific integrated circuits

Application Specific Integrated Circuits are becoming an increasingly important class of devices for many semiconductor manufacturers. These circuits often contain highly optimized digital architectures as well as analog circuitry for interfacing to sensors, transducers and actuators. In order to reduce the design time of these circuits high level software tools are being developed. A discussion is given of the requirements of a process technology, which is compatible with this type of design methodology.