ADSP-2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference
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7 I/O PROCESSOR
In applications that use extensive off-chip data I/O, programs may find it
beneficial to use a processor resource other than the processor core to per-
form data transfers. The ADSP-2126x contains an I/O processor (IOP)
that supports a variety of DMA (direct memory access) operations. Each
DMA operation transfers an entire block of data.
The DMA operations include the transfer types listed below and shown in
:
• Internal memory
external memory devices
• Internal memory
serial port (DAI)
• Internal memory
SPI I/O
• Internal memory
IDP (DAI)
By managing DMA, the I/O processor frees the processor core, allowing it
to perform other processor operations while off-chip data I/O occurs as a
background task. The dual-ported internal memory allows the core and
IOP to simultaneously access the same block of internal memory. This
means that DMA transfers to internal memory do not impact core perfor-
mance. The processor core continues to perform computations without
penalty.
To further increase off-chip I/O, multiple DMAs can occur at the same
time. The IOP accomplishes this by managing DMAs of processor mem-
ory through the parallel, SPI, input data port (IDP) and serial ports.
Summary of Contents for ADSP-21261 SHARC
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Page 58: ...Differences From Previous SHARCs 1 18 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 112: ...Secondary Processing Element PEy 2 54 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
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Page 204: ...DAG Instruction Summary 4 26 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 322: ...Setting Up DMA 7 32 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 436: ...SPORT Programming Examples 9 86 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 521: ...ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference 11 31 Input Data Port rts IDP_ISR end ...
Page 522: ...Input Data Port Programming Example 11 32 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 590: ...Timer Programming Examples 14 20 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 796: ...I O Processor Registers A 174 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 800: ...B 4 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Core Manual ...
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