Patent 7650440 was granted and assigned to Microchip Technology on January, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of performing a direct memory access has the steps of selecting a peripheral device for performing a direct memory access through a direct memory access controller; providing a partial address by the peripheral device to the direct memory access controller; and forming the source or destination address by combining the partial address with selected bits from a source register within the direct memory access controller.