deassert

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verb

To remove a signal on a line.

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Scrabble 9

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verbdeassert (third-person singular simple present deasserts, present participle deasserting, simple past and past participle deasserted)

present singular third person deasserts · participle present deasserting · participle past deasserted · past deasserted

  1. businessTo remove a signal on a line.

    The controller deasserts this line to allow the talker to place status or data on the data bus.

    1985, Vinod Kumar Bansal, Design of Microprocessor Based Systems, Wiley Eastern Limited, →OCLC, page 131
    2 more examples

    It therefore inserts a wait state into the third data phase by deasserting IRDY# at the start of clock cycle four.

    1999, Don Anderson, PCI System Architecture, Addison-Wesley Professional, →OCLC, page 139

    The third requirement is to deassert the outputs to their inactive state in response to the input conditions being satisfied.

    2017, Randal Fulton, Airborne Electronic Hardware Design Assurance: A Practitioner's Guide to RTCA/DO-254, CRC Press

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APA

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