US Patent:
20110264830, Oct 27, 2011
Inventors:
Antonio Arena - Arlington Heights IL, US
German Borkhovik - Prairie View IL, US
Assignee:
Temic Automotive of North America, Inc. - Deer Park IL
International Classification:
G06F 13/28
Abstract:
Methods and systems for measuring available direct memory access (DMA) throughput are disclosed, including providing a plurality of DMA channels, the DMA channels comprising a measuring DMA channel and other DMA channels, the measuring DMA channel having a lowest data rate priority, and determining an available DMA throughput by measuring a current data rate at which the measuring DMA channel is serviced in response to initiating a data transfer on the measuring DMA channel.