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Introduction
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SLAU723A – October 2017 – Revised October 2018
Copyright © 2017–2018, Texas Instruments Incorporated
Micro Direct Memory Access (µDMA)
8.1
Introduction
The µDMA controller provides the following features:
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Arm
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PrimeCell
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32-channel configurable µDMA controller
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Support for memory-to-memory, memory-to-peripheral, and peripheral-to-memory in multiple transfer
modes
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Basic for simple transfer scenarios
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Ping-pong for continuous data flow
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Scatter-gather for a programmable list of up to 256 arbitrary transfers initiated from a single request
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Highly flexible and configurable channel operation
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Independently configured and operated channels
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Dedicated channels for supported on-chip modules
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Flexible channel assignments
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One channel each for receive and transmit path for bidirectional modules
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Dedicated channel for software-initiated transfers
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Per-channel configurable priority scheme
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Optional software-initiated requests for any channel
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Two levels of priority
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Design optimizations for improved bus access performance between µDMA controller and the
processor core
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µDMA controller access that is subordinate to core access
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RAM striping
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Peripheral bus segmentation
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Data sizes of 8, 16, and 32 bits
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Programmable transfer size in binary steps from 1 to 1024
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Source and destination address increment size of byte, halfword, word, or no increment
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Maskable peripheral requests
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Interrupt on transfer completion with a separate interrupt per channel
8.2
Block Diagram
shows the µDMA block diagram.