Zero wait state is a feature of a
processor or
computer architecture in which the processor does not have to wait to perform
memory access.
Non-zero wait state describes the situation when a processor operates at a higher frequency than the memory, it has a
wait state
A wait state is a delay experienced by a computer processor when accessing external memory or another device that is slow to respond.
Computer microprocessors generally run much faster than the computer's other subsystems, which hold the data the ...
during which the processor is idle.
Computer memory
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