Part 2 applies the concepts introduced here to the Blackfin processor. It will be published Monday, February 7. This series reviews techniques you can use to tune DSP system performance, using the ...

Last time, in Part 1, we introduced somebasics behind Direct Memory Access (DMA) -why it's needed, and how it's structured and controlled. This time,we'll focus on the classifications of DMA transfers ...

Oh God. I feel bad posting this, because there is so much prior information...but...I don't think any of the previous threads answered my questions in general.<P>So ...

Multicast, a technique commonly used in networking systems, allows a given processing unit to send a single data stream to multiple destinations at the same time efficiently. Typically, the switch ...

At the last Boston Linux User's Group Installfest, I happened to overhear a conversation about enabling disk DMA. One person was explaining that he always regenerated the kernel after an installation ...