Dictionary

deassert en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + assert.

Meanings

1. 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Antonyms

assert

Relateds

deassertion