Chapter 8 DMA Controller
8-1
8. DMA
Controller
8.1 Features
The TX4937 contains two four-channel DMA Controller (DMAC0, DMAC1) that executes DMA (Direct
Memory Access) with memory and I/O devices.
The DMA Controller has the following characteristics.
<DMAC0,
DMAC1>
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Has four on-chip DMA channels
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Supports Memory-Memory Copy modes that do not have address boundary limitations. Burst transfer of
up to eight double words is possible for each Read or Write operation.
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Supports Memory Fill mode that writes double-word data to the specified memory region
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Supports Chained DMA Transfer
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On-chip signed 24-bit address count up registers for both the source address and destination address
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On-chip 26-bit Byte Count Register for each channel
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One of two methods can be selected for determining access priority among multiple channels: Round
Robin or Fixed Priority
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Big Endian or Little Endian mode can be set separately for each channel
<DMAC0>
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Supports external I/O devices with 8-, 16-, and 32-bit Data Bus widths and transfer between memory
devices.
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Supports single address transfer (Fly-by DMA) and dual address transfer when in the external I/O DMA
Transfer Mode that is operated by external request signals
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Supports DMA on-chip Serial I/O Controllers
<DMAC1>
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Supports DMA on-chip AC-Link Controllers
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