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Definition of "Wait State" |
A state in a state machine which holds its value, or doesn't allow the next state to occur until another process or signal is detected. A clock cycle in a clocked process that goes unused as a microprocessor waits for an event to occur. / A wait state is a situation in which a computer program or processor is waiting for the completion of some event before resuming activity. A program or process in a wait state is inactive for the duration of the wait state. For example, an application program that communicated with one other program might send that program a message and then go into a wait state until it was "reawakened" by a message back from the other program. / In telecommunication, EIA-232 is a standard for serial communication transmission of data. It formally defined the signals connecting between a data terminal equipment such as a computer terminal, and a DCE , such as a modem. / a bus cycle during which a CPU waits for a response from a memory or inputoutput device. |
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