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Application-Specific Integrated Circuit – a custom-designed chip optimized for a particular application or workload (e.g. a bitcoin mining ASIC) to achieve high efficiency in that specific task.

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Semiconductor Today

OpenLight sampling first heterogeneously integrated silicon photonics-based 3.2T DR8 PIC

Mar 20, 2026

Photonic application-specific integrated circuit (PASIC) chip designer and manufacturer OpenLight of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which launched as an independent company in June 2022, introducing the first open silicon photonics platform with heterogeneously integrated III-V lasers, modulators, amplifiers and detectors) has announced sample availability of its first heterogeneously...

Semiconductor Today

OpenLight receives first volume production orders Tower’s PH18DA InP-on-silicon photonic platform

Mar 20, 2026

Photonic application-specific integrated circuit (PASIC) chip designer and manufacturer OpenLight of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which launched as an independent company in June 2022, introducing the first open silicon photonics platform with heterogeneously integrated III-V lasers, modulators, amplifiers and detectors) has announced the first volume production orders by...

Semiconductor Today

OpenLight showcases III-V heterogenous integrated silicon photonics innovations and production capabilities

Mar 23, 2026

At the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2026) in Los Angeles (15–19 March), photonic application-specific integrated circuit (PASIC) chip designer and manufacturer OpenLight of Goleta, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which launched as an independent company in June 2022, introducing the first open silicon photonics platform with heterogeneously integrated...

Semiconductor Today

OpenLight and TFC advance silicon photonics back-end integration supporting up to 400G data rates on TGV substrate

Mar 23, 2026

Photonic application-specific integrated circuit (PASIC) chip designer and manufacturer OpenLight of Goleta, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which launched as an independent company in June 2022, introducing the first open silicon photonics platform with heterogeneously integrated III-V lasers, modulators, amplifiers and detectors) has announced continued progress in its ecosystem partnership with...

Semiconductor Engineering

Integrating Error Propagation Theory Into the FMEDA Framework (Robert Bosch GmbH)

Mar 28, 2026

A new technical paper, “Quantifying Uncertainty in FMEDA Safety Metrics: An Error Propagation Approach for Enhanced ASIC Verification,” was published by Robert Bosch GmbH. Abstract “Accurate and reliable safety metrics are paramount for functional safety verification of ASICs in automotive systems. Traditional FMEDA (Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis) metrics,...