DMA.
ZXNet echo conference «hardware.zx»
From Ivan Kuvshinov → To All 30 March 2004
Suppose it is possible to implement DMA
additional iron, how to do this well, on
logical level, what would be convenient, and will it be
justified? By the way, in the iron version, this
copying will occur from the 1st clock cycle per byte: for
two microcircuits, which is always the case, up to: quantity
memory chips divided by two (for example, for 8 chips in 4
times), while all this is done in parallel with the processor (at
the processor will have priority, or you can
suspend, but this, in my opinion, is worse, but it won’t be necessary
monitor the completion of copying, and during interruption
forcefully transfer to background copying). So, what
any suggestions?
KIA