Advanced Micro Devices Corporation

Tien E Wei

Fataneh Ghodrat

Christopher Jude Brennan

Techniques for performing multi-sample anti-aliasing operations are provided. The techniques include detecting an instruction for a multi-sample anti-aliasing load operation; determining a sampling rate of source data for the load operation, data storage format of the source data, and loading mode indicating whether the load operation requests same or different color components, or depth data; and based on the determined sampling rate, data storage format, and loading mode, load data from a multi-sample source into a register.

Load instruction for multi sample anti-aliasing

A technique for processing computer instructions is provided. The technique includes obtaining information for an instruction state memory entry for an instruction; identifying, for the instruction state memory entry, a slot in an instruction state memory having selectably powered rows and blocks, based on clustering criteria; and placing the instruction state memory entry into the identified slot.

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Tien E Wei