What is cycle stealing?
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
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.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 33 Yes | 1 No |
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.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 0 No |
What is a real-time system?
7 Answers SureSoft, Verifone, Wipro,
much time is spent usually in each phases and why?
Can I have two operating systems on one computer?
How much ram do I need for gaming?
What factors determine whether a detection-algorithm must be utilized in a deadlock avoidance system?
How can I make usb bootable?
What is multi tasking, multi programming, multi threading?
Why use 64bit excel?
What are a trap and trapdoor?
What is difference between synchronous and asynchronous threads and when can we use them?
How do you exit a screen?
What is belady's anomaly?