Apparatus and method for integrating texture memor

专利名称：Apparatus and method for integrating

texture memory and interpolation logic in acomputer system

发明人：Marc R. Hannah,Michael B. Nagy申请号：US08/650117申请日：19960522公开号：US057081A公开日：19980106

摘要：In a computer graphics system, a semiconductor chip used in performingtexture mapping. Textures are input to the semiconductor chip. These textures arestored in a main memory. Cache memory is used to accelerate the reading and writing oftexels. A memory controller controls the data transfers between the main memory andthe cache memory. Also included within the same semiconductor chip is an interpolator.The interpolator produces an output texel by interpolating from textures stored inmemory. The interpolated texel value is output by the semiconductor chip, therebyminimizing transmission bandwidth as well as redundant storage of texture maps in amulti-processor environment.

申请人：SILICON GRAPHICS, INC.

代理机构：Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman

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