Cell Broadband Engine Processor DMA engines

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IBM RSS feed Power Arch writes “A single Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) processor consists of one PowerPC core and eight SPEs each having their own DMA engine. The DMA engines are a key component of the overall Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA) as they move data between SPEs and the PowerPC core. Any operating system or application wishing to utilize the SPE depends on the DMA engines to manage work flow on behalf of the SPEs.”

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