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System chips that are always required by the architecture. (The PhantomChip is not technically required for a functioning VM, but there is almost always a need for it.)
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- Chip to handle phantom instructions. The Air will always constrain a NOP which advances pc by DEFAULT_PC_STEP. The runtime executor will execute different phantom instructions that may affect trace generation based on the operand.
- Chip to handle native kernel instructions for Poseidon2
compress
andpermute
. This chip is put in intrinsics for organizational convenience, but it is used as a system chip for persistent memory and as a native kernel chip for aggregation.