"chicken bit" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2015, Erik Seligman, Tom Schubert, M V Achutha, Kiran Kumar, Formal Verification, page 237",
          "text": "Validation of a chicken bit can be challenging, because disabling a feature is often as intrusive in the code as the feature itself.",
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          "ref": "2015, Vincent Zimmer, Jiming Sun, Marc Jones, Embedded Firmware Solutions: Development Best Practices, page 6",
          "text": "As a matter of fact, most of these chicken bits will never be documented, and a small portion of the chicken bits will be documented only when they are needed to work around a chip problem.",
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        "A bit on a chip that can be used to disable one of the features of the chip if it proves faulty or negatively impacts performance."
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        "(electronics) A bit on a chip that can be used to disable one of the features of the chip if it proves faulty or negatively impacts performance."
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        "(electronics) A bit on a chip that can be used to disable one of the features of the chip if it proves faulty or negatively impacts performance."
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