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</p></header><div class="entry-content"><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_top"><div class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/how-does-dma-enable-efficient-data-transfer-in-microcontrollers/" data-a2a-title="How does DMA enable efficient data transfer in microcontrollers?"><a class="a2a_button_facebook" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microcontrollertips.com%2Fhow-does-dma-enable-efficient-data-transfer-in-microcontrollers%2F&linkname=How%20does%20DMA%20enable%20efficient%20data%20transfer%20in%20microcontrollers%3F" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_x" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/x?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microcontrollertips.com%2Fhow-does-dma-enable-efficient-data-transfer-in-microcontrollers%2F&linkname=How%20does%20DMA%20enable%20efficient%20data%20transfer%20in%20microcontrollers%3F" 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As the CPU’s role is minimized, DMA enables the CPU to perform other high-priority tasks and ensures faster data transfers in the background.</p> <h3>How does the DMA controller work to reduce the load on the CPU?</h3> <p>The key benefits of the DMA controller in <a href="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/a-beginners-guide-to-microcontrollers-faq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">microcontrollers</a> are that it offloads data transfer tasks from the CPU, allows the CPU to perform other operations during transfers, and enables high-speed data transfer between I/O and memory. The working of a DMA controller can be broken down into six steps, as shown in <strong>Figure 1</strong>.</p> <figure id="attachment_15571" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15571" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-1.jpeg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-15571 size-full perfmatters-lazy" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='640'%20height='360'%20viewBox='0%200%20640%20360'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="dma" width="640" height="360" data-src="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-1.jpeg" data-srcset="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-1.jpeg 640w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-1-150x84.jpeg 150w" data-sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-15571 size-full" src="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-1.jpeg" alt="dma" width="640" height="360" srcset="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-1.jpeg 640w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-1-150x84.jpeg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></noscript></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15571" class="wp-caption-text">Figure 1. The six stages of DMA controller operation. (Image: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakesh-kumar-phd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D.</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>In the first step, the CPU initializes the DMA controller by programming its registers with source address, destination address, number of bytes/words to transfer, direction of transfer, and transfer mode. While the direction of memory can be either read-from-memory or write-to-memory, the transfer mode can be single, block, or demand.</p> <p>The second step is when an I/O device sends a DMA request signal to the DMA controller for data transfer. In the next step, known as bus arbitration, the DMA controller requests control of the system buses from the CPU by asserting the bus request signal. Once the CPU completes its ongoing instruction, it grants bus control to the DMA controller by asserting the bus grant signal.</p> <p>Data transfer happens in the fourth step when the DMA controller generates memory addresses and control signals to read/write data directly between <a href="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/how-many-internal-memories-does-an-mcu-have-faq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memory</a> and the I/O device. It increments the addresses and decrements the transfer count after each byte/word transfer.</p> <p>In the fifth step, when the specified number of bytes have been transferred, the DMA controller terminates the transfer and releases control of the system buses back to the CPU. The controller also generates an <a href="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/exceptions-traps-and-interrupts-whats-the-difference-faq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interrupt</a> to signal the completion process to the CPU. In the last step, the CPU services the interrupt and resumes standard processing.</p> <h3>How is DMA used in Smartwatch for efficient data transfer?</h3> <p>One of the several use cases of DMA can be seen in smartwatches (<strong>Figure 2</strong>). The DMA has been used in high throughput data flow, such as Bluetooth, gyroscope, accelerometer, and LCD screen. The DMA ensures that there is a smooth flow of data between RAM and peripherals.</p> <figure id="attachment_15572" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15572" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-2.png"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-15572 size-full perfmatters-lazy" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='640'%20height='315'%20viewBox='0%200%20640%20315'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="dma" width="640" height="315" data-src="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-2.png" data-srcset="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-2.png 640w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-2-300x148.png 300w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-2-150x74.png 150w" data-sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-15572 size-full" src="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-2.png" alt="dma" width="640" height="315" srcset="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-2.png 640w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-2-300x148.png 300w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-2-150x74.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></noscript></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15572" class="wp-caption-text">Figure 2. Architecture of a microcontroller-based smart watch illustrating the use of DMA to interact with the peripherals of the device directly. (Image: <a href="https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/auto-draft-258/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NDSS Symposium</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>The core processor is seen to be behind the memory protection unit (MPU), where the data flow is regulated through memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) operations. Therefore, the DMA takes up the load of the CPU to ensure that routine data transfer is taken care of by itself to free up the CPU for higher-priority tasks.</p> <h3>Case study</h3> <p>Researchers at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, and the Ulster University, Belfast, have successfully used DMA to improve energy efficiency and writing speed compared to existing file systems when using microSD cards as a storage system for wearable devices.</p> <p>A PSoC (CYBLE-222014-01) microcontroller with an ARM Cortex-M0 architecture was used along with two microSD as storage systems, one with 4 GB and the other with 8 GB. The <a href="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/how-does-spi-protocol-work-faq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serial peripheral interface</a> (SPI) protocol was used as an interface because of its lower power consumption compared to standard interfaces such as UART, <a href="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/i2c-k-squared-c/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I2C</a>, and SPI.</p> <p>The evaluation comparison was conducted between FatFs, a standard embedded file system used in wearable devices, and the proposed DMA system with an SPI interface. The results are shown in <strong>Figure 3,</strong> where both the processes were compared for average energy consumption and time required for writing 15,872 bytes from RAM to the microSD card.</p> <figure id="attachment_15573" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15573" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-3.png"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-15573 size-full perfmatters-lazy" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='640'%20height='227'%20viewBox='0%200%20640%20227'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="dma" width="640" height="227" data-src="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-3.png" data-srcset="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-3.png 640w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-3-300x106.png 300w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-3-150x53.png 150w" data-sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-15573 size-full" src="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-3.png" alt="dma" width="640" height="227" srcset="https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-3.png 640w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-3-300x106.png 300w, https://www.microcontrollertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Figure-3-150x53.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></noscript></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15573" class="wp-caption-text">Figure 3. Charts show how the use of DMA resulted in reduced average energy consumption (mJ) (left) and reduced average time required (ms) (right) for writing 15,872 bytes. (Image: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/s24154982" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MDPI</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>It is clear from the chart that the use of DMA at 2 Hz resulted in lesser energy consumption, 3.4 times and 7.8 times compared to FatFs, for the 4 GB and 8 GB cards, respectively. At 5 Hz, DMA’s energy savings had increased to 3.7 times and 10.6 times compared to FatFs for 4 GB and 8 GB cards, respectively.</p> <p>The writing speed has also increased using DMA for 15,872 bytes from RAM to the SD card. DMA at 2 Hz led to a faster performance at 2.3 times and 3.9 times compared to FatFs for the 4 GB and 8 GB cards, respectively. While at 5 Hz, the improvements were 2.2 times and 7.8 times compared to FatFs for the 4 GB and 8 GB cards, respectively.</p> <h3>Summary</h3> <p>DMA helps speed up data transfer and lower power consumption by reducing the CPU’s involvement. As seen in the smartwatch example, DMA efficiently handles streaming data like accelerometers, heart rate monitors, etc. This is because DMA transfers this data to memory buffers without waking the CPU for every sample.</p> <p>DMA is also helpful in parallel operation, depending on the microcontroller architecture, and improves real-time responsiveness. In the long run, it leads to enhanced battery life, an essential feature in low-power applications such as smart watches, drones, etc., where connection to a reliable and continuous power supply is absent.</p> <h3>References</h3> <p><a href="https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/auto-draft-258/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">D-Box: DMA-enabled Compartmentalization for Embedded Application</a>, NDSS Symposium<br /> <a href="https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/hardware/articles/direct-memory-access/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is Direct Memory Access (DMA)? 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