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.

Related terms

• deassertion

Antonyms

• assert

Anagrams

• asserted, dearests, estrades, readsets, sad trees, star seed, starseed