Functional DMA performing operation on DMA data and writing...

Details Functional DMA performing operation on DMA data and writing... Functional DMA performing operation on DMA data and writing...

2007-01-08

2009-06-16

Patel, Niketa I (Department: 2181)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Direct memory accessing

C710S001000, C710S026000, C710S031000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07548997

ABSTRACT:
In one embodiment, a direct memory access (DMA) controller comprises a transmit control circuit, an offload engine, and a receive control circuit. The transmit control circuit is configured to read first DMA data from an address space in a host. Coupled to receive the first DMA data from the transmit control circuit, the offload engine is configured to perform at least a first operation on the first DMA data to produce a result. The offload engine is configured to at least start performing the first operation during a DMA transfer that provides the first DMA data to the offload engine. Coupled to the offload engine to receive the result, the receive control circuit is configured to write the result to the address space in the host according to a DMA descriptor data structure that describes the DMA transfer.

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