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A.5

DMA Guidelines

DMA Guidelines

Guideline 12 — All C6x algorithms should be supplied in both little- and big-endian formats. (See

Section 5.3.1

)

Guideline 13 — On processors that support large program model compilations, a version of the algorithm

should be supplied that accesses all core run-time support functions as near functions and all
algorithms as far functions (mixed model). (See

Section 5.4.2

)

Guideline 14 — All C55x algorithms should not assume any specific stack configuration and should work

under all the three stack modes. (See

Section 5.5.1

)

DMA Guideline 1 — The data transfer should complete before the CPU operations executing in parallel

(DMA guideline). (See

Section 6.6

)

DMA Guideline 2 — All algorithms should minimize channel (re)configuration overhead by requesting a

dedicated logical DMA channel for each distinct type of DMA transfer it issues, and avoid calling
ACPY2 configure and preferring the new fast configuration APIs where possible. (See

Section 6.12

)

DMA Guideline 3 — To ensure correctness, All C6000 algorithms that implement IDMA2 need to be

supplied with the internal memory they request from the client applciation using algAlloc(). (See

Section 6.13.1

)

DMA Guideline 4 — To facilitate high performance, C55x algorithms should request DMA transfers with

source and destinations aligned on 32-bit byte addresses. (See

Section 6.14.1

)

DMA Guideline 5 — C55x algorithms should minimize channel configuration overhead by requesting a

separate logical channel for each different transfer type. They should also call ACPY2_configure
when the source or destination addresses belong in a different type of memory (SARAM, DARAM,
External) as compared with that of the most recent transfer. (See

Section 6.14.2

)

SPRU352G – June 2005 – Revised February 2007

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