Question

The technique whereby the DMA controller steals the access cycles of the processor to operate is called __________

(a) Fast conning

(b) Memory Con

(c) Cycle stealing

(d) Memory stealing

I have been asked this question by my college director while I was bunking the class.

Question is taken from Direct Memory Access in portion Input/Output Organisation of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

Right option is (c) Cycle stealing

To explain: The controller takes over the processor’s access cycles and performs memory operations.