Editing Direct memory access (section)

== Pipelining ==
Processors with [[scratchpad memory]] and DMA (such as [[digital signal processor]]s and the [[Cell (microprocessor)|Cell]] processor) may benefit from software overlapping DMA memory operations with processing, via [[double buffering]] or multibuffering.  For example, the on-chip memory is split into two buffers; the processor may be operating on data in one, while the DMA engine is loading and storing data in the other. This allows the system to avoid [[memory latency]] and exploit [[Burst mode (computing)|burst transfers]], at the expense of needing a predictable [[memory access pattern]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2016}}