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Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

@krutonium @marcan @dkohlbre it lets you "chicken out" of certain circuits when you're designing an ASIC, so if something misbehaves it doesn't wreck the whole chip and require an extremely expensive respin.

9 April at 1:26 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social
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slab

@gsuberland @krutonium @marcan @dkohlbre That's not the only name for the concept; my previous employer used "CYA bits" for things like that.

9 April at 1:50 | Open on unstable.systems
Hector Martin

@slab @gsuberland @krutonium @dkohlbre Apple themselves call them "tunables" it seems (though that's a more general term used for hardware config type stuff) and HID itself is a term from the PowerPC era (Hardware Implementation Dependent)

But we call them chicken bits because it's more fun.

9 April at 3:00 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Krutonium

@marcan @slab @gsuberland @dkohlbre I can appreciate that, chicken is definitely more fun.

Now with that said, why am I not getting *any* notifications all of a sudden...

9 April at 3:50 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
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