An ASIC is typically automatically design and premanufactured based on building-block design; they are not reconfigurable. An FPGA is undifferentiated logic that loads the configuration and interconnections (and thus the logic that it runs) at power-up.
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ASIC != FPGA. It couldn't run other algorithms.
An ASIC is typically automatically design and premanufactured based on building-block design; they are not reconfigurable. An FPGA is undifferentiated logic that loads the configuration and interconnections (and thus the logic that it runs) at power-up.