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What is cycle stealing?

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What is cycle stealing?..

Answer / guest

cycle stealing in the context of Direct Memory Access
(DMA). Either the DMA controller can use the data bus when
the CPU does not need it, or it may force the CPU to
temporarily suspend operation. The latter technique is
called cycle stealing.

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What is cycle stealing?..

Answer / nishant

When the DMA take control of the bus system. It communicates directly with the memory. A technique named cycle-stealing allow tha DMA controller to transfer one data word at a time.

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