PLX Technology’s ExpressLane PCI Express switches not only incorporate a four-channel DMA engine that can offload memory transfer chores from the host, they also eliminate the need for DMA support on ...

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 ...

The concept of direct-memory access (DMA) isn’t new; for years now, processors and chipset makers have been implementing DMA as part of their efforts to increase system performance. Similarly, ...

I am interested in the Asus A7S333. It says in the tech specs that it has Ultra DMA 33/66/100 channels. Does this mean that it can handle ATA100 drives?

There are several large fileservers at my work. They mostly utilize software IDE RAID5 arrays.<BR><BR>Recently, some of them have been having problems. The systems usually have 10-12 drives in the box ...

[Bruce Land] of Cornell University will be a familiar name to many Hackaday readers, searching the site for ‘ECE4760′ will bring up many interesting topics around embedded programming. Every year ...