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From: Jon Beniston on 13 Mar 2010 15:26
> The common metric for ASICs is to count gates in terms of the
> number of transistor in a two input NAND gate (four in CMOS),
> and so divide the number of transistors by that number.

Usually you divide the combined area of all the cells by the area of
the lowest drive strength 2-input NAND. (Similar, but not quite the
same, as you take in to account the size of the transistors as well as
the number).

Jon
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