Brendan Gillatt wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:10:50 -0700, aniramca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
>> On Sep 3, 3:46 pm, Dave Cohen <u...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Olympus' engine is called 3-ASICs (Application Specific Integrated
>> Circuit)
>
> I think you may have slightly the wrong end of the stick there - an
> ASIC, in the elctronics industry, is just another name for a custom
> built chip, usually with the client's logo stamped on the top. The
> '3-ASICs' name would imply that the particular camera has 3 such chips
> inside it.
> See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asic
Just like CMOS is not an image sensor but a technology used to make
image sensors and millions of other types of chips. Your computer is
full of them and most CMOS chips are not image sensors but something
completely different.
Still people will say "a CMOS" when they mean an image sensor made in a
CMOS technology so for marketing purposes apparently calling an ASIC
ASIC seems to work for Oly even when there are millions of ASICs that
have nothing to do with image processing. ;-)
Sander
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