Part Number:AM6548
Hi, TI engineers
Today I met some questions when I read the AM654x's datasheet.
As the datasheet said(the blue part as below),
does it means that the NAVSS probably has two function, one is for DMA, the other one is for Interprocessor Communication?
does it have other function as well?
and I can't understand a sentence(the red as below) clearly, would you please make a explanation for me?
Best Regards
Hope Chen
6.9 Interprocessor Communication
6.9.1 NAVSS
NAVSS specifies the data structures used by Texas Instruments standard communications modules to
facilitate direct memory access (DMA) and to provide a consistent application programming interface (API)
to the host software in multi-core devices. The data structures and the API used to manipulate them will
be jointly referred to as NAVSS.
Frequent tasks are commonly offloaded from the host processor to peripheral hardware to increase
system performance. Significant performance gains may result from careful design of the host software
and communication module interface. In networking systems, packet transmission and reception are
critical tasks. Texas Instruments has developed the NAVSS standard, which is aimed at maximizing the
efficiency of interaction between the host software and communications modules.