The Unkindness of Ravens were inspired by figures from Norse and Celtic mythology such as the Valkyries and The Morrígan. Filming took place during 2014 in Fife, Edinburgh, and Perthshire, and moved into post-production in 2015. To help with costs, Brewster opened a crowdfunding campaign through Kickstarter, with the goal to raise £40,000. The campaign was successful and marked the first Scottish crowdfunding campaign to raise such a large amount of money and the highest funded British horror film on Kickstarter. Horror film critic Kim Newman reviewed "The Unkindness of Ravens", writing that it was "a demanding, complicated film which might well require repeat
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