Allow Cluster and Array Transfer Types for DMA Streams

[Dragis]

Many data streams contain information for multiple channels or multiple samples. Today one must pack this data into larger integer types or interleave the data manually into multiple writes to the DMA FIFO API. It would be much simpler if the DMA natively support cluster and array data types. The local FIFO, Memory, and Register APIs already support this; extend it to DMA.

[JHE]

Classes too 🙂

[Dragis]

I was hoping someone would mention classes, but as one of the implementors of classes I thought I better not butt in and let someone else throw it out there : )

[Southern_Cross]

Those developing algorithms with parameters determined on the RT system yet implemented/executed on the FPGA will benefit a great deal from this feature!

[lt_kurki]

Still expecting this feature to appear some day (it's not present in LV2016). 

[Jeff_Giacone]

I've been looking for the same functionality, would make coding much easier and understandable to the reviewers. In addition, it would be a 1to1 interpolation between FPGA and S/W. hopefully we'll see it at NI week this year, 2017

[RavensFan]

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