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ASIC
,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]
[[Category:CPC Plus]][[Category:Stub]]