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present singular third person deasserts · participle present deasserting · participle past deasserted · past deasserted
- 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 1312 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 139The 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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