tristated

English

Adjective

tristated (not comparable)

  1. (electronics) In a high-impedance state that is neither the high output state nor the low output state, and allows other devices to drive the bus without interference from the tristate buffer.
    • 1984, Northcon/84: Mini/Micro Northwest-84 Conference Record, page 8:
      the data out drivers are tristated
    • 2012, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, ‎Robert W. Brodersen, Low Power Digital CMOS Design (page 336)
      Even after the output enable signal is true, the output remains tristated until the senseamp's cross coupled latch has resolved the data value, […]
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