• DocumentCode
    2240717
  • Title

    Design and Implementation of a Schedulable DMAC on an AMBA-Based SOPC Platform

  • Author

    Lin, Kuan Jen ; Huang, Chuang Hsiang ; Lo, Cheng Chia

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Fu Jen Catholic Univ., Taipei
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    4-7 Dec. 2006
  • Firstpage
    279
  • Lastpage
    282
  • Abstract
    A traditional DMA scheme hardly guarantees I/O throughput for real time multimedia applications. In this paper, we propose a novel SDMA (schedulable DMA) mechanism that guarantees real time I/O throughput and interrupts the CPU as few as possible. Furthermore, it can accept unscheduled requests and provide facility to treat unexpected delay to access I/O or memory. The controller handling the SDMA was successfully implemented on an AMBA-based SOPC platform. Experimental result shows that the SDMA has better performance than a traditional DMA
  • Keywords
    integrated memory circuits; processor scheduling; real-time systems; system-on-chip; AMBA-based SOPC platform; CPU; DMAC; I/O device; direct memory access; real time multimedia; real time system; schedulable DMA; Bandwidth; Bismuth; Delay; Design engineering; Multiaccess communication; Multimedia systems; Processor scheduling; Real time systems; Scheduling algorithm; Throughput; AMBA; DMA; I/O Device; Real time system; SOPC;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2006. APCCAS 2006. IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Singapore
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0387-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APCCAS.2006.342405
  • Filename
    4145385