An Unkindness of Ravens Fink. When Wexford does a favour for his wife—to look into the disappearance of one of their neighbours' husbands—everything he finds seems to confirm his first inkling: that this is simply another case of a bored middle-aged man having run off with a younger woman. However, when Rodney Williams is found dead, and another local man is stabbed in his car, Wexford finds himself thrown into an investigation involving a militant feministic organisation known as "Arria", who have taken the raven as their symbol. An Unkindness of Ravens An Unkindness of Ravens is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell.
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