You are designing a new device that must be able to accept bursts of data that are held until the CPU is ready for them. What can you include in the device design to accommodate this requirement?
A) FIFO chip
B) status register
C) port-mapped I/O
D) BIOS chip

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A FIFO (First In, First Out) chip is specifically designed to handle situations where data needs to be buffered or temporarily stored until the CPU is ready to process it. This makes it ideal for accepting bursts of data and holding them until the CPU can process them.

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