DMA Channel instantiation

[Intaris]

I don't like static resource definitions FIFOs, Block RAMs or DMAs in my projects.  I prefer to have the code declare such entities as they are required because this makes scalability much easier to achieve.

For FIFOs, BlockRAM and so this is no problem, but there are two things we currently cannot instantiate in code:

DMA Channels

Derived clocks

To deal with the first, why can't we define a DMA channel in the code?  When parsing the code before compiling, the presence of a DMA channel can be autodetected and added to the interface for the Bitfile. 

To try to decouple my code from static DMAs, I actually have started defining my core FPGA VIs as accepting FIFOs with Write functions (For DMAs to host) or Read functions (for writing to FPGA) required.  I can then, without having to change my project, wrap this FPGA VI in another VI which can then input wither a DMA channel (which unfortunately must be defined in the project) or a standard FIFO which cen then be used for debugging.

Please allow for the instantiation of DMA channels in code.