Synthesising an asynchronous DMA controller with Balsa

Journal of Systems Architecture

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 1309-1319

  Bardsley, Andrew ^a   Edwards, Doug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS SEQUENTIAL LOGIC; COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MICROCONTROLLERS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

ASYNCHRONOUS CIRCUIT DESIGN; ASYNCHRONOUS FINITE STATE MACHINES (AFSMS); DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS CONTROLLER; SYSTEM ON CHIP (SOC);

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0034538423     PISSN: 13837621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-7621(00)00026-6     Document Type: Article

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