Apparatus and method for grouping texture cache requests
US6300953A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 15, 1998 |
| Grant date | Oct 9, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 15, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T15/04
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus for grouping texture data to increase storage throughput. Texels are addressed and stored according to adjacency to enable retrieval of a plurality of texels (a cache entry) with only a single address space request. Individual texel position is then derived using a simple adjacency formula. The preferred method and apparatus are compatible with both tiled data and linear data storage formats.
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