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What is busmastering?
bus mastering is a feature supported by many bus architectures that enables a device connected to the bus to initiate transactions. Also called "First-party DMA", to contrast it with Third-party DMA, the situation where the system DMA controller is actually doing the transfer.
What is the future type of external memory?
If you mean after external hard drives, probably am 80 GB credit card. MSM9841 and MSM9842 offers two types of memory interface: interface when DMA controller is used (16-bit bus) that memory interface is through DMA controller; interface without DMA controller that memory interface (16-bit bus) is through CPU.
3 types of DMA transfer modes?
· Block transfer DMA controller takes the bus control by CPU. CPU has no access to bus until the transfer is complete. During this time CPU can perform internal operations that do not need bus. This is a common and popular method with modern microprocessors. · Cycle stealing This is a word-by-word transfer based on CPU cycle stealing. When DMA steals a cycle, CPU is stopped completely for one cycle. Cycle stealing is not an interrupt. CPU pauses for just one machine cycle. This type of transfer takes a period of time. Some major steps of DMA cycle stealing in order to transfer data to and form memory are: · DMA needs control of the CPU · DMA must use the bus only when the CPU does not need it · CPU is suspended by DMA just before it needs to use the bus · CPU pauses for one bus cycle · DMA transfers one words and then returns the control to CPU · The overall effect is to cause the CPU to execute more slowly · Interleaved DMA. It is similar to block transfer technique, here DMA controller takes the control of system bus only when CPU is not using it. For example, performing an ALU operation or incrementing a counter. The data transfer by this kind of method takes a period of time.
Basic DMA operation and 8237 DMA Controller?
In the 8085, DMA (Direct Memory Access) is controlled with HOLD and HLDA. The HOLD signal is a request to release the bus. The HLDA signal is the 8085's acknowledgement of that request. HLDA means that the 8085 will release the bus in one half clock cycle, i.e. at the end of T3. The 8085 will remain in that hold state until HOLD is released, at which point it will take control of the buses again. The HOLD'ing device has complete control and can access any memory or I/O. Often, the 8237 DMA controller is used to provide sequencing of the operation. The 8237 DMA controller interfaces between up to four peripheral devices and the 8085. It provides an address register for each device so that the device does not need to do so. The device only needs to indicate that a byte of data is available, or is required, and the 8237 will take care of storing or fetching the byte.
Is dma controller is processor or controller?
processor
Why DMA controller data transfer is faster?
The direct memory access or DMA mode of data transfer is the fastest amongst all the modes of data transfer.In this mode ,the device may transfer data directly to/from memory without any interference from the CPU.The device requests the CPU through a DMA controller to hold its data,address and control bus so that the device may transfer data directly to/from memory.
Why does DMA interrupt the CPU when ready to transfer?
DMA (Direct Memory Access) does not actually interrupt the CPU - it requests control of the bus, so that it can perform the transfer itself. It becomes a bus-master. This is done using the HOLD and HLDA (Hold Acknowledge) control pins. This is not the same thing as an interrupt, which is where an external device requests the CPU's attention, and the CPU goes off and performs some code to service that request. In the case of DMA, the CPU actually freezes for the few cycles that the DMA controller requires, which is much, much more efficient than using an interrupt service routine.
How does DMA work?
There are signals DACK, DRQ, and TC. When a peripheral wants to move a byte or 2 bytes into memory (is dependent on whether 8 bit or 16 bit DMA channel is in use -- 0,1,2,3 are 8-bit, 5,6,7 are 16-bit), it issues DRQ. DMA controller chats with CPU and after some time DMA controller issues DACK. Seeing DACK, the peripheral puts it's byte on data bus, DMA controller takes it and puts it in memory. If it was the last byte/word to move, DMA controller sets up also TC during the DACK. When peripheral sees TC, it is possible it will not want any more movements,
How is DMA different that busmastering?
DMA is the same thing as bus-mastering.
What is the role of DMA controllers in microprocessor based systems?
A DMA (Direct Memory Access) controller is a device that can request control of the memory bus from the CPU, and then transfer data to or from memory without the support of the CPU. It is often used in high speed I/O, such as hard drives, because polled and interrupt modes incur too much overhead.
Is it possible to use a dma controller if the system does not supports the interrupts?
You'd have to use DMA with polling, and thats usually not supported
What 8257 chip means?
The 8257 is a three channel DMA controller.
