Hardwired control units are implemented through use of sequential logic units, featuring a finite number of gates that can generate specific results based on the instructions that were used to invoke those responses.

Hardwired control units are generally faster than microprogrammed designs.

Some Amiga demos, such as the RSI Megademo, or Crionics & The Silents " Hardwired " are considered seminal works in the demo field.

The Dreamwave version of Megatron would also appear in a trilogy of iBooks by David Cian set in the main Dreamwave G1 universe: Hardwired, Annihilation and Fusion.

" It was originally published as a boxed set in 1988, and R. Talsorian released a few supplements for this edition, including Rockerboy, Solo of Fortune, and Hardwired, the latter based on the Walter Jon Williams novel of the same name.

The device used for the interface is a tiny implant called a " reno ", suggesting a link to Williams ' earlier cyberpunk novels Hardwired and Solip: System which deal with a near-future Earth.

Since then, he has had a series of starring roles in grittier films released direct-to-DVD such as the revenge dramas Hero Wanted and Wrong Turn at Tahoe, as well as the science fiction action film Hardwired and the action comedy Lies & Illusions.

Hardwired into a CPU's design is a list of basic operations it can perform, called an instruction set.

The film originated from a spec screenplay entitled ' Hardwired ' written in 1995 by Jeff Vintar.

* Hardwired and complex configuration with no conflict resolution.

San Francisco: Hardwired, 1996.

The idea has been postulated by geneticist Dean Hamer, the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U. S. National Cancer Institute, and author of the 2005 book The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes.

* The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes by Dean Hamer.

The novel Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams is an homage to Damnation Alley.

In 2010 she appeared in the direct-to-video film Hardwired as Punk Red.

Others works include The Morrow Project with Robert Sadler and Kevin Dockery, Fringeworthy, FTL: 2448, and Hardwired Hinterland.

In the 2009 episode " Hardwired " (# 229 ) he mentions that he is gay after becoming involved in a case in which a pedophile rights group compares the public's hatred of them to homophobia.

They eventually made the Amiga demoscene production Hardwired.

People who use modern general purpose computers ( as opposed to embedded systems, analog computers and supercomputers ) usually see three layers of software performing a variety of tasks: platform, application, and user software.

The Open Source movement addresses software being open as a practical question as opposed to an ethical dilemma.

The term sound card is also applied to external audio interfaces that use software to generate sound, as opposed to using hardware inside the PC.

A number of prominent free software advocates, such as Linus Torvalds, have vocally opposed this restrictive interpretation and enforcement.

Research and development is also continuing on fuzzy applications in software, as opposed to firmware, design, including fuzzy expert systems and integration of fuzzy logic with neural-network and so-called adaptive " genetic " software systems, with the ultimate goal of building " self-learning " fuzzy-control systems.

There is a rumor that Steve Jobs was initially opposed to including any sort of networking on the Mac, and that the RS-422 port and its associated software support was developed largely in secret.

Multiprocessing sometimes refers to the execution of multiple concurrent software processes in a system as opposed to a single process at any one instant.

The same principle has been given as an analogy to software developed in an evolutionary sense by group collaboration, as opposed to software built to a pre-ordained design that was created without reference to previous implementation.

A virtual burner, by definition, appears as a disc drive in the system with writing capabilities ( as opposed to conventional disc authoring programs that can create virtual disk images ), thus allowing software that can burn discs to create virtual discs.

A pseudonymous remailer or nym server, as opposed to an anonymous remailer, is an Internet software program designed to allow people to write pseudonymous messages on Usenet newsgroups and send pseudonymous email.

It had 128 KB of ROM on the motherboard, which was double the amount of ROM that was in previous Macs ; the new System software and ROMs included routines to support SCSI, the new 800 KB floppy drive, and the Hierarchical File System ( HFS ), which used a true directory structure on disks ( as opposed to the earlier MFS, Macintosh File System in which all files were stored in a single directory, with one level of pseudo-folders overlaid on them ).

The software renderer also uses nearest-neighbor texture filtering, as opposed to bilinear filtering or trilinear filtering used by modern video cards.

Critics question whether the promoters of truly ' open ' and mandatory improvement licensing, having spent most of their lives opposed to software patents, can actually attract donors of patents, or would actually participate in a process that they claim to despise.

Thus, information gathered regarding a disability may be used to deny someone compensation for an injury caused by their failure to see or do something, as opposed to being used to make that failure less likely by adapting the infrastructure or software to their use.

It is typically used in certain retail mass-production software contexts — as opposed to a specialized software production or project in a commercial or government production and distribution — where the software is sold as part of a bundle in a related computer hardware sale and typically where the software and related hardware is ultimately to be available and sold on mass / public basis at retail stores to indicate that the software has met a defined quality level and is ready for mass retail distribution.

This is as opposed to SAX which streams XML events such as " open element " " close element " " text node " ( and so on ) so that other software that can begin interpreting these immediately -- before the end of the file is reached.

Black-box testing is a method of software testing that tests the functionality of an application as opposed to its internal structures or workings ( see white-box testing ).

Because of the new interface's much greater reliance on visual as opposed to text elements, accessibility issues for blind and visually impaired users with screen-reading software were also anticipated.

The AVR was one of the first microcontroller families to use on-chip flash memory for program storage, as opposed to one-time programmable ROM, EPROM, or EEPROM used by other microcontrollers at the time.

It is fully programmable, and like its predecessor, the TR-808, it can store entire songs with multiple sections, as opposed to simply storing patterns.

They are also easily programmable without other tools, as opposed to cell phones or PDAs, which allow for easier use.

New Wave is a term applied to science fiction produced in the 1960s and 1970s and characterized by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, a " literary " or artistic sensibility, and a focus on " soft " as opposed to hard science.

The world also has some other minor differences with the one ( or more ) known to Eddie, Jake and Susannah, for instance, the Kansas City baseball team is the Monarchs ( as opposed to the Royals ), and Nozz-A-La is a popular soft drink.

Turkle discusses what she calls women's " non-linear " approach to the technology, calling it " soft mastery " and " bricolage " ( as opposed to the " hard mastery " of linear, abstract thinking and computer programming ).

This influence on the internal affairs of other countries is generally referred to as " soft power ", as opposed to military " hard power ".

In addition, it had a hard sliding case as opposed to the soft pouches supplied with the HP-48 series.

The initial ulcer may be mistaken as a " hard " chancre, the typical sore of primary syphilis, as opposed to the " soft chancre " of chancroid.

Okonkwo consciously adopts opposite ideals and becomes productive, wealthy, brave, violent, and opposed to music and anything else that he perceives to be " soft ," such as conversation and emotion.

The US State Department, the CIA, the US Justice Department and the FBI all opposed the move on the grounds that it made the United States look ' soft on terrorism ' and ' could do irreparable damage to the special relationship '.

One of the major characteristics are hills formed of marl-covered soft chalk, as opposed to the Judean Hills which are made of hard chalk and dolomite.

* The Magnetic Field Design ( MFD ) pickups use a ceramic bar magnet in combination with soft iron pole pieces with adjustable height, instead of the traditional Alnico magnet, and allow a player to set the pickup output per string, as opposed to the entire pickup as a whole in traditional single-coil pickup designs.

A soft drink is a drink that contains no ( or very little ) alcohol, as opposed to a hard drink, which does contain alcohol.

Songs such as " Sister Go Boldly Forward " ( 妹妹你大胆的往前走 ) came to represent an earthy, primordial masculine image of Mainland China, as opposed to the soft, sweet, polished urban gangtai style.

The sticks ' square profile make Conté crayons more suitable for detailed hatched work as opposed to the bolder painterly drawing style demanded by soft pastels.

# development of the consonant group rj ( as opposed to consonant / r /) from former soft / r '/ before a vowel ( e. g. morjem, zorja )

Morcha opposed UPA government for its soft approach against terrorism evident by not hanging Afzal Guru, convicted for attacking Parliament.

As the name implies, most mbuna are cichlids that live among the piles of rocks and along the rocky shores of Lake Malawi, as opposed to the utaka and other " haps ," cichlids that live in the open water or on sandy shores or soft substrates.

This last was accompanied by a business collar ( such as winged collar, not a standing Imperial collar ); a four in hand tie ( as opposed to the formal cravat and puff ), and a soft Derby or Homburg.

( As opposed to " soft limits.

The flesh does not correspond at all, in his terminology, to the soft part of our material and objective body as opposed for example to the bones, but to what he called in his earlier books our subjective body.

As prime minister, Berenguer repealed some of the harsher measures introduced by Primo de Rivera, earning his regime the nickname dictablanda ( the toothless dictatorship, blanda meaning soft, – as opposed to the preceding dictadura, dura the Spanish word for hard ) or Parum Mentula.

It is also known as the " heavy jig " ( as opposed to the light jig, slip jig, and single jig, and reel which are done as soft shoes ).

Sparklies are black or white ' hard ' interference dots ( as opposed to the ' soft ' interference patterns of terrestrial television ), caused either by too weak or too strong a signal.

Within two days, his entire stock, much of it partly melted, had been sold, and Carvel realized that both a fixed location and soft ( as opposed to hard ) frozen desserts were potentially good business ideas.

Neigong practice is normally associated with the so called " soft style ", " internal " or neijia 內家 Chinese martial arts, as opposed to the category known as waigong 外功 or " external skill " which is historically associated with shaolinquan or the so called " hard style ", " external " or wàijiā 外家 Chinese martial arts.