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VL82C37A
CMOS DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS (DMA) CONTROLLER
FEATURES
• Low-power CMOS version of popular 8237A DMA controller
• Four DMA channels
• Individual enable/disable control of DMA requests
• Directly expandable to any number of channels
• Independent auto-initialize feature for all channels
• High performance 8 MHz version available
• Transfers may be terminated by endof-process input
• Software controlled DMA requests
• Independent polarity control for DREO and DACK signals
DESCRIPTION
The VL82C37A Direct Memory Access (DMA) Controller serves as a peripheral interface circuit for microprocessor systems, and is designed to improve system performance by allowing external devices to directly transfer information from the system memory.