Mitsubishi Electric and Electronics U.s.a., Inc.

Elizabeth J Schlapp

Methods for operating a frame buffer memory device are disclosed which provide for accelerated rendering of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images in a computer graphics system One disclosed operation is a method for compressing data to be transmitted from a controller to the memory device and then decompressing the data within the memory device once it has been transmitted and received.

Methods for operation of semiconductor memory

Methods for operating a graphics system which employs one or more frame buffer memory devices are disclosed which methods provide for accelerated rendering of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images in a computer graphics system One disclosed operation is a method for compressing data to be transmitted from a controller to the memory device and then decompressing the data within the memory device once it has been transmitted and received.

Methods for semiconductor systems for graphics processing

A frame buffer memory is disclosed which provides accelerated rendering of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images in a computer graphics system. One embodiment of the disclosed memory comprises a memory array, a pixel buffer, a plurality of pixel arithmetic-logic units, an input data formatter, an output data formatter, a read data formatter, a write data formatter and an address and control input bus.

Frame buffer memory for graphic processing

A graphics processing system which employs one or more frame buffer memory devices is disclosed which system provides accelerated rendering of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images. One embodiment of the disclosed system comprises a rendering controller, an interface, a frame buffer memory, a rendering bus and an address and control bus.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Elizabeth J Schlapp