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  • What is cycle stealing?


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  • We encounter 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 Note that cycle stealing can be done only at specific break points in an instruction cycle 


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