Direct Memory Access

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
DMA
Pronunciation
/dɪˈrɛkt ˈmɛməri ˈækˌsɛs/
Category
Academic & Science
Related Field
Electronics

Examples in Context

  1. We also add the'unsafe'keyword since direct memory access isn't thread safe.
  2. The first copy is performed by the DMA engine, which reads file contents from the disk and stores them into a kernel address space buffer.
  3. The SPEs access main storage with direct memory access ( DMA ) commands that move data and instructions between main storage and a private local memory, called a local store or local storage ( LS ).
  4. A method and apparatus for high performance volatile disk drive ( VDD ) memory access using an integrated direct memory access ( DMA ) engine.
  5. The most efficient scheme uses hardware assists such as the AMD I / O MMU ( IOMMU ) to provide transparent translation of guest physical addresses to host physical addresses ( for operations such as direct memory access [ DMA ] ).

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