Method and apparatus for programming a remote DMA engine residin

Details Method and apparatus for programming a remote DMA engine residin Method and apparatus for programming a remote DMA engine residin

1997-12-15

2000-06-27

Lee, Thomas C.

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Direct memory accessing

710 9, 710 22, 710 24, 710 26, 710 27, 710 31, 709212, G06F 1300, G06F 1200, G06F 1516

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060818514

ABSTRACT:
The invention, in one embodiment, is a method for accessing memory. The method includes programming a remote DMA engine from a destination; accessing data in the memory with the DMA engine, the DMA engine operating as programmed by the destination; and transferring the accessed data to the destination.

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