• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.10 no.1 s.18
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• pp.22-29
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• 2006

In this paper, we present the efficient way of SDRAM accessing through the DMA(Direct Memory Access) when a microprocessor and peripheral blocks are sharing a SDRAM. The microprocessor is able to access a memory through the AMBA which is the system bus provided by ARM Corporation and DMAs are able to access a memory through their own bus. Peripheral block's reading and writing on the SDRAM memory are realized by the intermediate DMA in order to minimize times of access and addressing the memory. While the microprocessor doesn‘t access to the SDRAM aproaching other registers or occurring a hit signal for fetching program or data, the DMAs may read/write the data in the SDRAM without an interference of the AMBA. This way increases the efficient of the system and performance is more by 16.8%.