• AXI4 compliant
• Optional Independent Scatter/Gather Direct Memory Access (DMA) support
° Provides offloading of DMA management work from the CPU
° Provides fetch and update of transfer descriptors independent from primary data bus
° Allows descriptor placement to be in any memory-mapped location separate from data buffers. For example, descriptors can be placed in block RAM.
° Provides optional cyclic operation
• Optional Direct Register Mode (no scatter/gather support)
A lower performance but less FPGA-resource-intensive mode can be enabled by excluding the Scatter Gather engine. In this mode transfers are commanded by setting a Source Address (for MM2S) or Destination Address (For S2MM) and then specifying a byte count in a length register.
• Primary AXI4 data width support of 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 and, 1,024 bits
• Primary AXI4-Stream data width support of 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 and, 1,024 bits
• Optional Data Re-alignment Engine for a stream data width up to 512 bits
Allows data realignment to the byte (8 bits) level on the primary memory map and stream datapaths
• Optional AXI Control and Status Streams to interface to AXI Ethernet IP
Provides optional Control Stream for the MM2S Channel and Status Stream for the S2MM channel to offload low-bandwidth control and status from the high-bandwidth datapath.
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Optional Micro mode
AXI DMA can be configured to deliver a low footprint, low performance IP that can handle the transfer of small packets. Read the following chapters for more information.