The Digital Blocks DB-DMAC-MC-AXI is a Multi-Channel DMA Controller supporting 1 – 16 independent data block / packet / stream transfers. The Direct Memory Access (DMA) Controller IP Core contains 1 - 16 DMA Controller Engines (i.e. DMA Channels), supporting a 1 – 32 interfaces, including AMBA AXI interconnect. A customized number of DMA Controller Engines and interfaces are available.
The individual internal DMA Controller Channel services each interface at its maximum throughput, whether it’s an AXI4 or AXI3 with high data burst capability, or Peripheral with slower speed requirements.
The DMA Controller IP Core can serve as a general-purpose Programmable DMA Controller supporting many system memories and peripherals, or be sized to the user required number of DMA Engines, AXI4 / AXI3 interconnect interfaces, and user application interfaces.
AXI4 Multi-Channel DMA Controller
Overview
Key Features
- 1 - 16 Multi-Channel High Performance DMA Controller Engines:
- High-Speed Finite State Machine Control
- High Throughput to/from Memory & Peripherals via AMBA AXI4 / AXI3 on both small and large data sets
- Dual-Port, Dual-Clock FIFO, user parameterized in Depth x Width
- Optional Dual-Port, Single-Clock FIFO design
- Up to 16 DMA transfers in parallel active
- Hardware or Software Initiated Transfers
- Link-List Processor for Autonomous & Chained Block Transfers
- Scatter / Gather – supports non-contiguous data block transfers to a contiguous segment of memory and vice versa
- Arbiter with variety of Arbitration Modes including Quality of Service (QoS) and low-latency
- Individual Interface Data Widths: 8 / 16 / 32 / 64 / 128 / 256 / 512 / 1024. Data re-alignment matching interfaces with different data widths
- Programmable Data Burst Capability: 1, 4, 8, 16 on AXI4/AXI3 Interfaces. Up to 256 on AXI4
- Interrupt Controller – Signaling DMA Transfer Done & Diagnostics
- AXI DMA Backbone or PCIe DMA Engine
- Fully-synchronous, synthesizable Verilog RTL core, with rising-edge clocking, no gated clocks, and no internal tri-states, for easy integration into FPGA or ASIC design flows.
Deliverables
- Verilog RTL Source or technology-specific netlist.
- Comprehensive testbench suite with expected results.
- Synthesis scripts.
- Installation & Implementation Guide.
- Technical Reference Manual.
Technical Specifications
Foundry, Node
Chartered, IBM, LSI. OKI, Silterra, SMIC, STMicroelectronics, Tower, TMSC, UMC
Maturity
Successful in Customer Implementations
Availability
Immediately