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13 years ago

Data stream to PCIe: regular or scatter gather DMA controller?

For a simple data flow (FIFO output to DMA controller to PCIe TXS port) is there any advantage to using the scatter/gather DMA controller rather than the regular DMA controller? There is only one ...
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13 years ago

Well in this case I think it should work. As long as you know the limits and can cope with them in your case I see no reason to move to another DMA.