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Product data sheet Rev. 4.2 — 18 August 2014 70 of 155
NXP Semiconductors
LPC4350/30/20/10
32-bit ARM Cortex-M4/M0 microcontroller
7.17 AHB peripherals
7.17.1 General-Purpose DMA (GPDMA)
The DMA controller allows peripheral-to memory, memory-to-peripheral,
peripheral-to-peripheral, and memory-to-memory transactions. Each DMA stream
provides unidirectional serial DMA transfers for a single source and destination. For
example, a bidirectional port requires one stream for transmit and one for receives. The
source and destination areas can each be either a memory region or a peripheral for
master 1, but only memory for master 0.
7.17.1.1 Features
• Eight DMA channels. Each channel can support a unidirectional transfer.
• 16 DMA request lines.
• Single DMA and burst DMA request signals. Each peripheral connected to the DMA
Controller can assert either a burst DMA request or a single DMA request. The DMA
burst size is set by programming the DMA Controller.
• Memory-to-memory, memory-to-peripheral, peripheral-to-memory, and
peripheral-to-peripheral transfers are supported.
• Scatter or gather DMA is supported through the use of linked lists. This means that
the source and destination areas do not have to occupy contiguous areas of memory.
• Hardware DMA channel priority.
• AHB slave DMA programming interface. The DMA Controller is programmed by
writing to the DMA control registers over the AHB slave interface.
• Two AHB bus masters for transferring data. These interfaces transfer data when a
DMA request goes active. Master 1 can access memories and peripherals, master 0
can access memories only.
• 32-bit AHB master bus width.
• Incrementing or non-incrementing addressing for source and destination.
• Programmable DMA burst size. The DMA burst size can be programmed to more
efficiently transfer data.
• Internal four-word FIFO per channel.
• Supports 8, 16, and 32-bit wide transactions.
• Big-endian and little-endian support. The DMA Controller defaults to little-endian
mode on reset.
• An interrupt to the processor can be generated on a DMA completion or when a DMA
error has occurred.
• Raw interrupt status. The DMA error and DMA count raw interrupt status can be read
prior to masking.
7.17.2 SPI Flash Interface (SPIFI)
The SPI Flash Interface allows low-cost serial flash memories to be connected to the ARM
Cortex-M4 processor with little performance penalty compared to parallel flash devices
with higher pin count.