DMA is especially useful for transferring blocks of data (for example, data from a disk drive, audio, or video data) at high speeds. It is also useful for slow data (like UARTs) so that the CPU ...

At the core of DMA is the DMA controller: its sole function is to set up data transfers between I/O devices and memory. In essence it functions like the memcpy function we all know and love from C.

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