LM3S5G51 Datasheet, PDF (362/1266 Pages) Texas Instruments – Stellaris® LM3S5G51 Microcontroller

Micro Direct Memory Access (μDMA)
8 Micro Direct Memory Access (μDMA)
The LM3S5G51 microcontroller includes a Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller, known as
micro-DMA (μDMA). The μDMA controller provides a way to offload data transfer tasks from the
Cortex^™-M3 processor, allowing for more efficient use of the processor and the available bus
bandwidth. The μDMA controller can perform transfers between memory and peripherals. It has
dedicated channels for each supported on-chip module and can be programmed to automatically
perform transfers between peripherals and memory as the peripheral is ready to transfer more data.
The μDMA controller provides the following features:
■ ARM^® PrimeCell^® 32-channel configurable µDMA controller
■ Support for memory-to-memory, memory-to-peripheral, and peripheral-to-memory in multiple
transfer modes
– Basic for simple transfer scenarios
– Ping-pong for continuous data flow
– Scatter-gather for a programmable list of arbitrary transfers initiated from a single request
■ Highly flexible and configurable channel operation
– Independently configured and operated channels
– Dedicated channels for supported on-chip modules
– Primary and secondary channel assignments
– One channel each for receive and transmit path for bidirectional modules
– Dedicated channel for software-initiated transfers
– Per-channel configurable priority scheme
– Optional software-initiated requests for any channel
■ Two levels of priority
■ Design optimizations for improved bus access performance between µDMA controller and the
processor core
– µDMA controller access is subordinate to core access
– RAM striping
– Peripheral bus segmentation
■ Data sizes of 8, 16, and 32 bits
■ Transfer size is programmable in binary steps from 1 to 1024
■ Source and destination address increment size of byte, half-word, word, or no increment
■ Maskable peripheral requests
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