An Unkindness of Ravens An Unkindness of Ravens An Unkindness of Ravens is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1985, and features her popular protagonist Inspector Wexford, and is the 13th entry in the series. On American publication, it was shortlisted for the MWA Edgar Award, alongside another Rendell novel, "The Tree of Hands", meaning she has the remarkable distinction of being one of only two authors in the award's history to have had "two" novels on the shortlist in any one year (the other being Charlotte Armstrong). "Ravens" was adapted as a play by theatre professor Joel
Application-specific integrated circuit controller chip for a PC and a chip for a modem. Both of these examples are specific to an application (which is typical of an ASIC) but are sold to many different system vendors (which is typical of standard parts). ASICs such as these are sometimes called Application-Specific Standard Products (ASSPs). Examples of ASSPs are encoding/decoding chip, standalone USB interface chip, etc. IEEE used to publish an ASSP magazine, which was renamed to IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in 1990. Application-specific integrated circuit An Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC ) is an integrated circuit (IC) customized for a particular use, rather than