Optimize SoC Design

The Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller enables the movement of blocks of data from peripheral to memory, memory to peripheral, or memory to memory without burdening the processor.

The DMA-230 is a low gate count (3-10k gates) micro-DMA engine targeting Cortex-M3 systems and other low-power and cost-sensitive applications. The device offers excellent performance at low gate count and all the code is stored in system RAM rather than in registers. Using this component enables Cortex-M1 and Cortex-M3 based systems to remain low cost through reduced gate count and enabling scaling down the frequency of the processor in the system for reducing overall power consumption.