Texas Instruments TMS320DM644x Purpose of the Peripheral, Features, Functional Block Diagram

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User's Guide

SPRUE30B – September 2006

Multimedia Card (MMC)/Secure Digital (SD) Card Controller

1Introduction

This document describes the multimedia card (MMC)/secure digital (SD) card controller in the TMS320DM644x Digital Media System-on-Chip (DMSoC).

1.1Purpose of the Peripheral

A number of applications use the multimedia card (MMC)/secure digital (SD) card to provide removable data storage. The MMC/SD card controller provides an interface to external MMC and SD cards. The communication between the MMC/SD card controller and MMC/SD card(s) is performed according to the MMC/SD protocol.

1.2Features

The MMC/SD card controller has the following features:

Supports interface to multimedia cards (MMC)

Supports interface to secure digital (SD) memory cards

Ability to use the MMC/SD protocol

Programmable frequency of the clock that controls the timing of transfers between the MMC/SD controller and memory card

256-bit read/write FIFO to lower system overhead

Signaling to support enhanced direct memory access (EDMA) transfers (slave)

20 MHz maximum clock to MMC (specification 3.31)

50 MHz maximum clock to SD (specification version 1.1)

1.3Functional Block Diagram

The MMC/SD card controller transfers data between the ARM and the EDMA controller on one side and the MMC/SD card on the other side, as shown in Figure 1. This means you have a choice of performing data transfers using the CPU or EDMA as a mechanism to move data between the device memory and the FIFO. The ARM and the EDMA controller can read from or write to the data in the card by accessing the registers in the MMC/SD controller.

SPRUE30B –September 2006

Multimedia Card (MMC)/Secure Digital (SD) Card Controller

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Texas Instruments TMS320DM644x manual Purpose of the Peripheral, Features, Functional Block Diagram