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Host Port Interface (HPI)
21.1.4 Industry Standard(s) Compliance Statement
The HPI is not an industry standard interface that is developed and monitored by an international
organization. It is a generic parallel interface that can be configured to gluelessly interface to a variety of
parallel devices.
21.1.5 Terminology Used in This Document
The following is a brief explanation of some terms used in this document:
Term
Meaning
host
External host device
HPI DMA logic
Logic used to communicate between the HPI and the DMA system that moves data to
and from memory. This is independent of the EDMA system on the processor
processor
Entire system-on-chip