
PERIPHERAL INTERFACING–III 11-23
as is seen now, the serial port as well as the parallel port are obsolete, because of being
superseded by the USB port.
11.5 | Direct Memory Access
Data transfer between peripherals and memory is a frequent activity in any computer
system. There are three methods by which this can be done; we have seen two such
methods – polling and interrupt based data transfer. Polling is unacceptable, except for
very small systems, because it keeps the processor in a waiting loop. Interrupt based
data transfer is fine, because only when data transfer is needed, is the processor called
into action for this.
Now, there is a third ...