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DMA (Direct Memory Access)

A hardware engine that moves data between peripherals and memory without the CPU.

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ADC samples straight into a buffer, UART transmit from memory — the CPU only handles "half/complete" interrupts. Mind cache coherence on Cortex-M7.

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