Inventors:
Howard Sachs - Los Altos CA, US
Alan Guo - San Jose CA, US
Assignee:
Telairity Semiconductor, Inc. - Santa Clara CA
International Classification:
G06F 13/28
Abstract:
A direct memory access method and apparatus therefor are disclosed. A block of data to be transferred from memory using DMA includes organizing the block of data as a linked list of segments of the block of data. A processor specifies a starting address of a starting element in the linked list. Subsequent transfers from memory can occur according to DMA transfer techniques without further intervention from the processor.