deassert

English

Etymology

de- + assert

Verb

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

  1. (electronics) To remove a signal on a line.
    • 1985, Vinod Kumar Bansal, Design of Microprocessor Based Systems, Wiley Eastern Limited, →OCLC, page 131:
      The controller deasserts this line to allow the talker to place status or data on the data bus.
    • 1999, Don Anderson, PCI System Architecture, Addison-Wesley Professional, →OCLC, page 139:
      It therefore inserts a wait state into the third data phase by deasserting IRDY# at the start of clock cycle four.
    • 2017, Randal Fulton, Airborne Electronic Hardware Design Assurance: A Practitioner's Guide to RTCA/DO-254, CRC Press:
      The third requirement is to deassert the outputs to their inactive state in response to the input conditions being satisfied.

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