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Chapter 9: DMA Controller
9.2.1 DMA Transfers on the AXI Interconnect
All of the DMA transactions use AXI interfaces to move data between the on-chip memory, DDR
memory and slave peripherals in the PL. The slave peripherals in the PL normally connect to the
DMAC peripheral request interface to control data flow. The DMAC can conceivable access IOPs in
the PS, but this is normally not useful because these paths offer no flow control signals.
The data paths that are normally used by the DMAC are shown in Figure 9-3. The peripheral request
interface (used for flow control) is not shown in the figure. Each AXI path can be a read or write.
There are many combinations. Two typical DMA transaction examples include:
Memory to memory (On-chip memory to DDR memory)
Memory to/from PL peripheral (DDR memory to PL peripheral)