chicken bit
chicken bit noun: a bit on a chip that can be used to disable one of the features of the chip if it proves faulty or negatively impacts performance.
Noun
chicken bit (plural chicken bits)
- A bit on a chip that can be used to disable one of the features of the chip if it proves faulty or negatively impacts performance.
- As an example, modules such as branch predictors and speculative execution units can be turned off with a variant of the “chicken bits”, control bits common to many design developments to control the activation of specific features.2010, Ilya Wagner, Valeria Bertacco, Post-Silicon and Runtime Verification for Modern Processors, →ISBN, page 165
- Validation of a chicken bit can be challenging, because disabling a feature is often as intrusive in the code as the feature itself.2015, Erik Seligman, Tom Schubert, M V Achutha, Kiran Kumar, Formal Verification, →ISBN, page 237
Forms of chicken bit
| plural | chicken bits |
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Origin of chicken bit
From chicken, in the sense of chicken out.
Questions about chicken bit
- What does chicken bit mean?
- Chicken bit means a bit on a chip that can be used to disable one of the features of the chip if it proves faulty or negatively impacts performance.
- What part of speech is chicken bit?
- Chicken bit is a noun.
- What is the plural of chicken bit?
- The plural of chicken bit is chicken bits.
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