hard core

n.1. The most dedicated, unfailingly loyal faction of a group or organization: the hard core of the separatist movement.2. An intractable core or nucleus of a society, especially one that is stubbornly resistant to improvement or change.

hard core

n 1. (Sociology) the members of a group or movement who form an intransigent nucleus resisting change 2. (Civil Engineering) material, such as broken bricks, stones, etc, used to form a foundation for a road, paving, building, etc adj 3. (of pornography) describing or depicting sexual acts in explicit detail 4. extremely committed or fanatical: a hard-core Communist.

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n. 1. the permanent, dedicated, and faithful nucleus of a group or movement, as of a political party. 2. the part of a group that is resistant to change. 3. a form of punk rock played in an intense, harsh, fast style with more emphasis on rhythm than on melody. [1935–40]

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adj. 1. unswervingly committed; uncompromising: a hard-core conservative. 2. pruriently explicit; graphically depicted: hard-core pornography. 3. being so without apparent change or remedy; chronic: hard-core unemployment. [1950–55]

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Noun

hard core - the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movementclique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp, pack - an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

hard core

1. noun A very devoted subset of group or organization. They're the hard core of the group, so I'd talk them if you're interested in volunteering.2. noun A style of rock music that is especially loud and aggressive. Usually spelled as one word. I used to listen to hardcore, but I've moved on to other genres.3. adjective Describing someone who is staunch and unyielding in their beliefs. Often hyphenated or spelled as one word. She's a hard-core liberal, so good luck getting her to listen to your conservative views.4. adjective Describing pornography that is especially graphic or explicit. Often hyphenated or spelled as one word. I was appalled to find hard-core porn on his computer.5. adjective Describing something that is especially intense or impressive. Often hyphenated or spelled as one word. Wow, you're really specializing in surgery? That's hardcore!6. adjective Describing a style of rock music that is especially loud and aggressive. Usually spelled as one word. I used to play in a hardcore punk band back in college.See also: core, hard

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(British English) the small central group in an organization, or in a particular group of people, who are the most active or who will not change their beliefs or behaviour: It’s only really the hard core that bother(s) to go to meetings regularly. ▶ ˈhard-core adj.
1 having a belief or a way of behaving that will not change: a hard-core political activist
2 relating to pornography (= books, videos, etc. that describe or show naked people and sexual acts) of an extreme kind: hard-core sex magazinesSee also: core, hard

hard-core

1. mod. sexually explicit; pornographic. You can’t sell that hard-core stuff in a store like this! 2. mod. extreme; entrenched. There are too many hard-core cases of poverty there. 3. mod. very good; stunning; great. I’d like a really hard-core pizza with at least five kinds of cheese. 4. mod. extreme; quintessential. She thinks of herself as a hard-core leftist.

hard core

Engineering material, such as broken bricks, stones, etc., used to form a foundation for a road, paving, building, etc.

hard core

Lakatos’ term for that part of a scientific programme (see FALSIFICATIONISM) which is protected at all costs.

hard core

A block of digital logic that is designed to be implemented in an ASIC or FPGA chip. A chip design may be made up of one or more hard cores combined with one or more soft cores along with other blocks of user-defined logic.

For ASIC chips, a hard core is delivered as logic gates in which their physical locations relative to each other and their interconnections are predefined. This block will be treated as a "black box" by the place-and-route software that processes the entire design. The location of the block as a whole may be determined by the software, but the block's internal contents are "locked down."

With FPGAs, hard cores are already physically implemented as hardwired blocks embedded into the FPGA's fabric. See core, soft core, ASIC and FPGA.

How Hard Cores Fit In

When used in an ASIC chip, information about the hard core is entered at various stages to make room for it before its actual layers are added. With FPGAs, floor planning is still done, but the microprocessor core and other IP blocks are already in place. Consequently, instead of a gate-level netlist, a lookup table/configurable logic block (LUT/CLB) netlist is created, and the final output for FPGAs is a configuration file rather than GDSII files.

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noun the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement

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