ADSP-214xx SHARC Processor Hardware Reference 2-1
2 I/O PROCESSOR
In applications that use extensive off-chip data I/O, programs may find it
beneficial to use a processor resource other than the processor core to per-
form data transfers. The ADSP-214xx processors contain an I/O processor
(IOP) that supports a variety of DMA (direct memory access) operations.
Each DMA operation transfers an entire block of data. These operations
include the transfer types shown in Table 2-1 and the list that follows.
Table 2-1. I/O Processor Specifications
Feature Availability
Total DMA channels See product specific data sheet
Rotating DMA channel priority Yes
Media Local Bus (MLB) 31
SPORT DMA channels 16
IDP DMA channels 8
UART DMA channels 4
FIR/FFT/IIR DMA channels 2
SPI DMA channels 2
MTM/DTCP DMA channels 2
External Port DMA channels 2
PDAP DMA channel 1
DMA channel interrupts 16
Clock Operation f
PCLK