fixed-function

The device costs about $1,500, which may sound pricey for a fixed-function type of computing device.

Intel Sells Its Own Reader for the Health Care Market - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The device costs about $1,500, which may sound pricey for a fixed-function type of computing device.

Intel Sells Its Own Reader for the Health Care Market - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

CE devices in the past were much more single-function and fixed-function, and upgrades if available

B2fxxx 2004

Based on Microsemi's proprietary flash process, SmartFusion devices are ideal for hardware and embedded designers who need a highly integrated SoC that provides more flexibility than traditional fixed-function microcontrollers, and significantly reduces the cost of soft processor cores on traditional FPGAs.

unknown title 2011

Based on Microsemi's proprietary flash process, SmartFusion devices are ideal for hardware and embedded designers who need a highly integrated device that provides more flexibility than traditional fixed-function microcontrollers, and significantly reduces the cost of soft processor cores on traditional FPGAs.

unknown title 2011

While Intel's EUs are roughly on par with NVIDIA's shader cores, its fixed-function hardware doesn't quite compare-Intel just hasn't thrown resources at graphics the way NVIDIA or AMD would.

Ars Technica Chris Foresman 2011

Along with fixed-function and video encoding and decoding hardware, the HD 3000 includes 12 programmable "execution units" that run at a nominal speed of 350MHz on the mobile processors Apple uses in its low-end machines.

Ars Technica Chris Foresman 2011

But the LEC chip that Lyric has created can be tiled to create fixed-function ECC for flash drives that can expand from 1 Gb/sec to 6 Gb/sec of bandwidth and yet be 30 to 70 times smaller than equivalent digital ECC circuits, use one-twelfth the power, and have four times the I/O bandwidth per pin between the flash memory and its controller.

The Register 2010

FPGAs also provide the flexibility to optimize the solution that competing fixed-function ASICs

Business Wire Travel News 2010

The Cypress PLC family includes a cost-optimized fixed-function device with an I2C interface

WebWire | Recent Headlines 2010