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15:48, 8 October 2009 An ASIC is an especially manufactured custom Chip designed to fullfill special fonctions.
The main reason is to perform special tasks or combine different electronnic componnents in a single Chip.
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]] include a "second heart" simply referred as the ASIC.
The Amstrad Plus ASIC perform many additionnal features that the old CPC series couldn't...The Plus Features.
*Hardware Sprites.
*CRTC emulation.
*Hardware Scrollings.
*Maybe some interactions with the ACID chip in Cartridges.
*DMA sound channels.
*MAny many more.
[[Category:CPC Plus]][[Category:Stub]]