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13 years ago

Stream to Memory sgdma problem

I am having two problems with the sg-dma in my system. My first issue is that the sg-dma ready signal goes low after the first element of streaming data, then returns high on the third. This causes...
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11 years ago

In general I would avoid putting any time consuming code into an ISR. While the processor is in the ISR it can't handle other interrupts or other tasks so you typcially want to keep the amount of work done inside an ISR to a minimum. If you overload an ISR with work it can lead to problems that are hard to predict or reproduce for debug purposes.