deassert

verb

deassert

verb

Etymology From de- + assert.

1

Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics To 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:
  • 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:
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  • 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:
Antonyms
assert
Related terms
deassertion

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