LM3S8G62 Datasheet, PDF (46/1096 Pages) Texas Instruments – Stellaris® LM3S8G62 Microcontroller

OBSOLETE: TI has discontinued production of this device.
Architectural Overview
1.3.4.2
■ 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
■ Interrupt on transfer completion, with a separate interrupt per channel
System Control and Clocks (see page 177)
System control determines the overall operation of the device. It provides information about the
device, controls power-saving features, controls the clocking of the device and individual peripherals,
and handles reset detection and reporting.
■ Device identification information: version, part number, SRAM size, Flash memory size, and so
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