EDN

Direct Memory Access Control

This application note presents the Direct Memory Access (DMA) control, its basic set-up and operations. The document includes the usage examples of the DMA controller and the DMA Trigger Factor ...
Hackaday

Speeding Up Your Projects With Direct Memory Access

Here’s the thing about coding. When you’re working on embedded projects, it’s quite easy to run into hardware limitations, and quite suddenly, too. You find yourself desperately trying to find a way ...
EDN

Implementing DMA on ARM SMP Systems

This Application Note explores the implications associated with performing Direct Memory Access (DMA) operations on an ARM multi-core system such as the ARM11 MPCore and Cortex-A9 MPCore. The target ...
Semiconductor Engineering

PIO on Current HW Outperforms DMA Over a Range of Payload Sizes In A Number of Different Applications (ETH Zurich)

A new technical paper titled “Rethinking Programmed I/O for Fast Devices, Cheap Cores, and Coherent Interconnects” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. “Conventional wisdom holds that an ...