John Thornton wrote: > What is DMA? > Direct Memory Access. The IEEE-1284 port under ECP mode can transfer huge blocks of data to/from system memory without CPU intervention. This is great for parallel port Ethernet (thankfully now replaced with USB) and par port page scanners, and printers, etc. It is much less likely to be useful for servo motor control as the blocks being transferred are going to be quite short.
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