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A '''Peripheral DMA controller''' is a feature found in modermmodern micro controllers.

This is typically a [[FIFO]] with automated control features for driving implictlyimplicitly included modules in a microcontroller such as [[UART]]s.

This takes a large burden from the operating system and reduces the number of interrupts required to service