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Programmable dma controller
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Copyright Year | 1993 |
| Description | In a data system having a memory, plural input/output (I/O) devices and a bus connecting each of the I/O devices to the memory, a direct memory access (DMA) controller regulating access of each of the I/O devices to the bus, including a priority register storing priorities of bus access requests from the I/O devices, an interrupt register storing bus access requests of the I/O devices, a resolver for selecting one of the I/O devices to have access to the bus, a pointer register storing addresses of locations in the memory for communication with the one I/O device via the bus, a sequence register storing an address of a location in the memory containing a channel program instruction which is to be executed next, an ALU for incrementing and decrementing addresses stored in the pointer register, computing the next address to be stored in the sequence register, computing an initial contents of each of the register. The memory contains a sequence of channel program instructions defining a set up operation wherein the contents of each of the registers in the channel register is initialized in accordance with the initial contents computed by the ALU and an access operation wherein data is transferred on the bus between a location in the memory whose address is currently stored in the pointer register and the one I/O device enabled by the resolver. |
| File Size | 1857837 |
| Page Count | 22 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20080004280 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t87h6hg60 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1993-05-18 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Patents Computer Storage Devices Memory Computers Input/output Routines Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Patent |
