Including an area of programmable logic can help a custom chip to deal gracefully with bugs or adapt to shifting standards.

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The promise of reconfigurable logic is that it should allow the logic and memory resources in a chip to be used more efficiently, especially in applications that need massive computing power.

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Conventional CMOS image sensors mount the pixel section and analog logic circuit on top of the same chip, which require numerous constraints when wishing to mount the large-scale circuits such as measures to counter the circuit scale and chip size, measures to suppress noise caused by the layout of the pixel and circuit sections, and optimizing the characteristics of pixels and circuit transistors.

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Merging magnets with semiconductors would allow a chip to combine a computer's memory and logic functions.

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Launched by BBK spin-off Vivo in Beijing just now, this 5.7-inch Xplay takes one step further from its smaller X1 and X1S cousins by packing one extra audio chip, the OPA2604 op amp from Texas Instruments, in order to add extra oomph to Cirrus Logic's CS4398 DAC and CS8422 stereo asynchronous sample-rate converter -- both of which are featured on the X1 series.

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