In the world of computers, the central processing unit (CPU) is–well–central. Your first computer course probably explained it like the brain of the computer. However, sometimes you can overload that ...

Direct Memory Access (DMA) is a capability provided by some computer bus architectures that enables data to be sent directly from an attached device, such as a disk drive, to the main memory on the ...

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Direct memory access (DMA) I/O is simple in concept: a peripheral device moves data directly to or from memory while the CPU is busy doing other things. As is so often the case, DMA is rather more ...