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chicken bits

chicken bits is the plural of chicken bit.

Meaning of chicken bit

Noun

chicken bit (plural chicken bits)

  1. 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

Questions about chicken bits

What is chicken bits the plural of?
Chicken bits is the plural of chicken bit.

Words near chicken bits in the dictionary

  1. chicken ball
  2. chicken balls
  3. chicken Balmoral
  4. chicken bingo
  5. chicken bit
  6. chicken bits
  7. chicken bog
  8. chicken bogs
  9. chicken breast
  10. chicken breasts
  11. chicken brick

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