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An application specific standard product or ASSP is an integrated circuit that implements a specific function that appeals to a wide market. As opposed to ASICs that combine a collection of functions and designed by or for one customer, ASSPs are available as off-the-shelf components. ASSPs are used in all industries, from automotive to communications.
Examples of ASSPs are integrated circuits that perform video and/or audio encoding and/or decoding.
Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_specific_standard_product)

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  - An application specific standard product or ASSP is an integrated circuit that implements a specific function that appeals to a wide market. As opposed to ASICs that combine a collection of functions and designed by or for one customer, ASSPs are available as off-the-shelf components. ASSPs are used in all industries, from automotive to communications.
    Examples of ASSPs are integrated circuits that perform video and/or audio encoding and/or decoding.
    Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_specific_standard_product)
    (Note: The Electronic Engineers Toolbox provides an alternative set of featured links for this word at http://www.cera2.com/assp.htm)
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    Olympus SOC
    The Olympus-SoC™ IC implementation solution is purpose-built to address the performance, capacity, time-to-market, and variability challenges at advanced nodes. With full support for low-power design styles, signoff-quality timing analysis and optimization, and DFM-aware routing, Olympus-SoC delivers the highest quality layouts with fast turnaround and rapid closure.
    http://www.mentor.com
    
    QuickLogic Announces Innovative Framebuffer Solution to Extend Battery Life
    QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the leader in low power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), is proud to announce the new Frame Recycler Proven System Block (PSB) for inclusion in its CSSPs. The Frame Recycler PSB allows handheld mobile system developers to conserve significant battery life by allowing the CPU to shut down when display content is unchanged. While mobile consumer device displays are required to be refreshed...
    http://www.quicklogic.com
    
    QuickLogic Announces Solution That Changes the Way Mobile Systems Optimize System Power
    QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the leader in low power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), is proud to announce the new Wake-up and Verify (WAV) Proven System Block (PSB) for inclusion in its CSSPs. The WAV PSB allows handheld mobile system developers to conserve energy through effective power management by shutting down the CPU and the CSSP between bursts of activity caused by peripheral devices. Today’s mobile system...
    http://www.quicklogic.com
    
    Application specific standard product @ Wikipedia
    An application specific standard product or ASSP is an integrated circuit that implements a specific function that appeals to a wide market. As opposed to ASICs that combine a collection of functions and designed by or for one customer, ASSPs are available as off-the-shelf components. ASSPs are used in all industries, from automotive to communications. Examples of ASSPs are integrated circuits that perform video and/or audio encoding...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_specific_standard_product
    
    Pericom Introduces Industry First Family of ASSP Crystal Oscillators (ASSP-XO™) for …
    Pericom Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: PSEM) a worldwide preferred supplier of products for timing, signal conditioning and serial connectivity, today announced production availability of an industry-first family of Application Specific Standard Product Crystal Oscillators (ASSP-XO™) for frequencies ranging from 2MHz to 159MHz. This product family offers a new paradigm in crystal oscillators by addressing the application requirements...
    http://www.pericom.com/press/207/
    
    QuickLogic Proves 'Seeing is Believing' with VEE/DPO Evaluation Boards…
    QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the lowest power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs) leader, today announced the availability of its ArcticLink® II VX2 demonstration boards for the evaluation of the company's unique Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE) and Display Power Optimizer (DPO) technologies. 'Since we announced our VX Family last year, mobile device developers have been evaluating VEE/DPO's potential in their own...
    http://www.quicklogic.com
    
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