• A peripheral DMA controller (PDC) is a feature found in modern microcontrollers. This is typically a FIFO with automated control features for driving...
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  • microcontrollers since 2021 Channel I/O Peripheral DMA controller (PDC) Clock gating, autonomous peripheral clock gating Power gating CPU power dissipation...
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  • initializes the DMA controller with a count of the number of words to transfer, and the memory address to use. The CPU then commands the peripheral device to...
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  • communications controller chip Peripheral DMA controller Disk controller Floppy disk controller Disk array controller, also known as a RAID controller, a type...
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  • separate DMA engines rather than the SPI controller itself, such as used by Multichannel Buffered Serial Port (MCBSP). Most SPI master controllers integrate...
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    USB-connected dongle. Modern network interface controllers offer advanced features such as interrupt and DMA interfaces to the host processors, support for...
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    Intel 8237 is a direct memory access (DMA) controller, a part of the MCS 85 microprocessor family. It enables data transfer between memory and the I/O...
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  • memory access (DMA) transactions. It is also referred to as first-party DMA, in contrast with third-party DMA where a system DMA controller actually does...
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  • dehydrogenase complex, an enzyme complex Plasmacytoid dendritic cell Peripheral DMA controller Personal decompression computer, for scuba divers Personal Digital...
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    moved to the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus in 2006), "legacy" I/O devices (integrated into Super I/O, Embedded Controller, CPLD, and/or IPMI chip)...
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    Microelectronics Division. The name PIC initially referred to Peripheral Interface Controller, and was subsequently expanded for a short time to include...
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    microcontrollers specifically exclude various common features, such as: USB peripheral, DMA controller, crypto engine, or an external memory bus. The following table...
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    memory management unit (MMU) connecting a direct-memory-access–capable (DMA-capable) I/O bus to the main memory. Like a traditional MMU, which translates...
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  • Thunderbolt (interface) (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    version of this host controller and a peripheral controller supporting two Thunderbolt 3 ports (JHL7440). The new peripheral controller can now act as a USB...
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  • CCI-500), SDRAM memory controllers (CoreLink DMC-400), DMA controllers (CoreLink DMA-230, DMA-330), level 2 cache controllers (L2C-310), etc. A number...
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  • A DMA attack is a type of side channel attack in computer security, in which an attacker can penetrate a computer or other device, by exploiting the presence...
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  • electronics DMA with support for memory-to-memory DMA and peripheral DMA EMAC (Ethernet Media Access Controller) with MII and RMII External memory: the EBIU...
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    an 8-channel DMA unit, an 8-bit parallel I/O port a controller port interface circuits allowing serial and parallel access to controller data, a 16-bit...
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    integrated peripherals: LCD Controller, up to 2 16-bit timers, watchdog timer, RTC, power management module (BOR, SVS, SVM, LDO), USCI module, DMA, 32x32...
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  • devices, variously named channel, I/O processor, I/O controller, I/O synchronizer, or DMA controller. Many I/O tasks can be complex and require logic to...
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    interrupts and DMA channels. The 16-bit version was an upgrade for the motherboard buses of the Intel 80286 CPU (and expanded interrupt and DMA facilities)...
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    Performance 32-Bit DMA Controller with Integrated System Support Peripherals. This chipset has 20-level programmable interrupt controller a superset of Intel's...
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    Host adapter (redirect from Host controller)
    communicate with peripheral devices include ESCON and newer FICON. Disk array controller Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters Host controller interface for USB...
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    computing, an expansion card (also called an expansion board, adapter card, peripheral card or accessory card) is a printed circuit board that can be inserted...
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    integrated peripheral functions like clock generator, 16-bit counters/timers, interrupt controller, wait-state generators, serial ports and a DMA controller. It...
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    memory access (DMA) to the drives was performed using DMA channel 2 and IRQ 6. The diagram below shows a conventional floppy disk controller which communicates...
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    side, and the various peripheral devices on the other. A bus controller accepted data from the CPU side to be moved to the peripherals side, thus shifting...
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    storage either on cartridges or the optional Controller Pak accessory. The 64DD magnetic disc peripheral offered additional storage for game content and...
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    implementation of a complex protocol and implies an "intelligent" controller in the peripheral device. Developers of USB devices intended for public sale generally...
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  • involving the CPU for every transaction. In contrast, in direct memory access (DMA) operations, the CPU is uninvolved in the data transfer. The term can refer...
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