DMA (Direct Memory Access) frees the CPU from these menial tasks. With DMA, peripheral devices do not have to ask the CPU to fetch some data for them, but can do it themselves.

Last time, in Part 1, we introduced somebasics behind Direct Memory Access (DMA) -why it's needed, and how it's structured and controlled. This time,we'll focus on the classifications of DMA transfers ...

One of those methods is DMA or direct memory access. As the name implies, DMA is the ability for an I/O device to transfer data directly to or from memory. In some cases, ...

Implementing direct memory access is straightforward, once you know how it works and how to configure your DMA controller. Here’s a primer on this most efficient means of moving data around in a ...

AMD’s Smart Access Memory effectively provides its Ryzen 5000 processors direct access to the GPU memory to bypass I/O bottlenecks. This allows CPUs to access the full graphics frame buffer ...