Integrated circuits are one of the key complex units available to designers of\nmultichannel detector setups. A whole number of factors makes Application Specific Integrated\nCircuits (ASICs) valuable for Particle Physics and Astrophysics experiments. Among them the\nmost important ones are: integration scale, low power dissipation, radiation tolerance. In order\nto make possible future experiments in the intensity, cosmic, and energy frontiers today ASICs\nshould provide new level of functionality at a new set of constraints and trade-offs, like low-noise\nhigh-dynamic range amplification and pulse shaping, high-speed waveform sampling, low power\ndigitization, fast digital data processing, serialization and data transmission. All integrated\ncircuits, necessary for physical instrumentation, should be radiation tolerant at an earlier not\nreached level (hundreds of Mrad) of total ionizing dose and allow minute almost 3D assemblies.\nThe paper is based on literary source analysis and presents an overview of the state of the art\nand trends in nowadays chip design, using partially own ASIC lab experience. That shows a\nnext stage of ising micro- and nanoelectronics in physical instrumentation.
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