Sp3d Chip Design Gmbh

Gordon Cichon

A device for a hierarchical connection of a plurality of functional units in a processor comprises a first connector with at least two inputs and an output, which is adapted for connecting one of the inputs to the output, a second connector with at least one input and an output, which is adapted for connecting the input to the output, and a buffer connected between the output of the second connector and the input of the first connector for buffering, for at least one clock cycle, a signal applicable to the at least one input of the second connector before H is forwarded to a further input of the first connector. The output of the first connector is connected to an input of a first functional unit. An output of a second functional unit is connected to a first input of the at least two Inputs of the first connector. The at least one input of the second connector is connected to a third functional unit. A signal connection from the output of the third functional unit, which is not a neighbour to the first functional unit, and the input of the first functional unit is possible only via the second connector, the buffer and the first connector rather than via the first connector alone so that the connection between the neighbouring functional units is higher in hierarchy than the connection between non-neighbouring units.

Hierarchical connection of plurality of functional units with faster neighbor first level and slower distant second level connections

A device for the graphic representation on a display surface of an object defined by a plurality of triangles which are respectively specified by three points in homogeneous object coordinates comprises a device for transforming the homogeneous object coordinates of the plurality of triangles into homogeneous clip coordinates of a clip coordinate system with an observer standpoint located on an observation axis which is perpendicular to the display surface, a device for determining the position of the observer standpoint in relation to each of the plurality of triangles by determining the orientation of each triangle of the plurality of triangles in the clip coordinate system with repect to the observer standpoint using the homogeneous clip coordinates of the plurality of triangles, a device for marking the position of the observer standpoint in relation to each triangle of the plurality of triangles in association with the homogeneous object coordinates of the plurality of triangles, and a device for processing the triangles specified in the object coordinates using the marked position of the observer standpoint in relation to each triangle so as to graphically represent the object on the display surface.

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Gordon Cichon