... home ...

assp: Definition and Recommended Links

Our favorite links for this topic area. Enjoy, fellow researchers! Questions, comments, new links? Email eewindow@aol.com!.

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)

other great electronics sites:ee toolbox site

• • assp
    • 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)

      Featured Links:

      Networking Silicon Market Share 2006 (Paid Report)

      The market for wired communications ASSPs was tumultuous in 2006. Key product markets such as DSL and Ethernet switching surged in the beginning of the year and then retreated. In other product markets, performance varied among vendors. Some network processor suppliers, for example, also fared well in the first half only to slow in the second while others accelerated in the second half as design wins took hold. Meanwhile, merger and...
      http://www.linleygroup.com/Reports/mn_guide.html

      Enhanced Zatara(TM) ARM(R)-Based ASSP From Zilog Adds Integrated Security Features…

      PCI-PED, Single-Chip Solution Offers Highest Levels of Integration, Dual-Role USB OTG Controller, and Reduced External Component Count for Better Overall System Security SAN JOSE, Calif., June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Zilog, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZILG) a leading supplier of 8-, 16- and 32-bit embedded Flash microcontrollers, universal remote control and 32-bit ARM(R) core-based application-specific standard products (ASSPs) today added a new...
      http://phx.corporate-ir.net

      Freescale offers customization across SoC platforms to help customers streamline unique product ...

      To address the market need for highly customized devices, Freescale Semiconductor has launched a Customer Specific Products (CSP) business that provides custom system-on-chip (SoC) solutions based on its industry-leading SoC platforms Power Architecture® processors, ColdFire® controllers and i.MX platforms based on ARM® technology. Freescale is the only company in the industry to have three distinct processor platforms with proven...
      http://media.freescale.com

      Xelerated Announces New Reference Design for GPON to Enable Mass Volume Deployment

      Xelerated, the global leader in field-proven Carrier Ethernet ASSP-based chipsets, today announced a new reference design for GPON. Xelerated’s new HX300 family of network processor units (NPUs) and Ethernet switches can now interoperate with Broadlight’s BL3458 controller. The fully integrated GPON solution enables carriers to deploy revenue-generating services in the access network while reducing costs, increasing time-to-market and...
      http://www.xelerated.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

      Xelerated Introduces HX300 Family of NPUs and Industry’s First Programmable Ethernet Switches

      Xelerated, the global leader in field-proven Carrier Ethernet ASSP-based chipsets, today announced its next-generation HX300 family of high performance network processors with integrated traffic management and fully-programmable Ethernet switches. It brings new levels of integration and flexibility to the Carrier Ethernet market, and enables mass deployment of advanced Fiber Access solutions while significantly reducing solution costs. ...
      http://www.xelerated.com

      Explanation: these links are provided as part of our EE glossary project, which seeks to identify the most prominent keywords in embedded systems, embedded software, realtime and rtos, dsp (digital signal processing), system-on-a-chip, microprocessors and microcontrollers, and other constituent elements for embedded systems. While we seek to keep most of the links up-to-date, the user is refered to other primary electronic-based search sites such as: cera2.com, embedded.com, or EDN Magazine. If you have any suggestions of links or definitions, please email!

Mark Twain quote for the day:

Titles and honor and dignity once acquired in a democracy, even by accident and properly usable for only forth-eight hours, are as permanent here as eternity is in heaven. You can never take away those titles. Once a justice of the peace for a week, always "judge" afterward. Once a major of militia for a campaign on the Fourth of July, always a major. To be called colonel, purely by mistake and without intention, confers that dignity on a man for the rest of his life. We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain