DMA controller mailing auto-initialize halting unit

Year	Description
1992	Invention patented by Naotaka Kanno on October 14th, 1992. Abstract: A DMA controller includes a transfer size register written with the number of DMA transfer operations to be performed, a transfer destination address register written with a transfer destination head address for the same DMA transfer operations to be executed, and a transfer size counter and a transfer destination address counter respectively loaded with contents of the transfer size register and the transfer destination address register when the DMA transfer is restarted, for the purpose of performing an auto-initialize operation. The DMA controller is configured so that when either or both of the head address and the transfer size for a next DMA transfer is not set in the transfer size register and the transfer destination address register in the course of execution of the DMA transfer before the next DMA transfer, the auto-initialize operation is halted.
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Invention: DMA controller mailing auto-initialize halting unit