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ASIC

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An Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC is an especially manufactured custom Chip designed to fullfill special fonctions.)
The main reason An ASIC is an especially manufactured custom Chip designed to perform fulfill special tasks or combine different electronnic componnents in a single Chipfonctions.
The main reason is to perform special tasks or combine different electronic componnents into a single Integrated Circuit (Chip).
==Amstrad Custom chips== The Amstrad CPC used one custom chip : the CRTC (or VGA ? don't remember well..)
Latter [[CPC]] series included a "pre-ASIC".
The Amstrad Plus ASIC perform many additionnal features that the old CPC series couldn't...The : the "Plus Features".
*Hardware Sprites.
*Maybe some interactions with the ACID chip in Cartridges.
*DMA sound channels.
*MAny Many many more. 
==Links==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit ASIC at Wikipedia]
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