Everything About ___
Live briefing

Everything about Gate array

Type of integrated circuit

A gate array is a type of semi-custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The manufacturer fabricates a base wafer containing a regular array of transistors before the customer's circuit is known. To create a particular chip, the factory adds customer-specific metal interconnect layers that join those transistors into logic gates and larger functions. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Gate arrayA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: DNA-based programmable gate arrays for general-purpose DNA computingInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: FPGA Prototyping by VHDL ExamplesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Routing Techniques for Gate ArrayCited 62 times
  5. Go sideways: Application-specific integrated circuitA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Integrated circuitA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun an integrated circuit that is a prefabricated silicon chip circuit with no particular function except standard functions like NAND or NOR logic gates, and other active devices.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Design and manufacture
  2. History
  3. Design
  4. Uses

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics