DMA (Direct Memory Access) controller has following:

2017

DMA (Direct Memory Access) controller has following:

  1. A.

    Only master interface

  2. B.

    Only slave interface

  3. C.

    Master and slave interface both

  4. D.

    None of the above

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Correct answer: C

A DMA controller must communicate with both the CPU/system bus and the I/O device. Therefore it has both master and slave interface behavior.

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