Qualcomm Incorporated

Via Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Glenfly Tech Co., Ltd.

Heng Qi

Andrew Evan Gruber

Yun Du

Chun Yu

Zhou Hong

Chihong Zhang

Thomas Edwin Frisinger

Zilin Ying

Huaisheng Zhang

Richard Hammerstone

Quanquan Xu

Sheng Gu

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for graphics processing. For example, disclosed techniques facilitate improving bindless state processing at a graphics processor. Aspects of the present disclosure can receive, at a graphics processor, a shader program including a preamble section and a main instructions section. Aspects of the present disclosure can also execute, with a scalar processor dedicated to processing preamble sections, instructions of the preamble section to implement a bindless mechanism for loading constant data associated with the shader program. Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure can distribute the main instructions section and the constant data to a streaming processor for executing the shader program.

Methods and apparatus to facilitate a dedicated bindless state processor

A method for combining instructions, performed by a compiler, containing at least the following steps. First instructions are obtained, where each performs one of a calculation operation, a comparison operation, a logic operation, a selection operation, a branching operation, a LD/ST (Load/Store) operation, a SMP (sampling) operation and a complicated mathematics operation. The first instructions are combined as one combined instruction according to data dependencies between the first instructions. The combined instruction is sent to a SP (Stream Processor).

Methods for combining instructions and apparatuses having multiple data pipes

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