Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Yeongon Cho

Soojung Ryu

Woong Seo

Sangheon Lee

Jeongae Park

Seunghun Jin

Youngsam Shin

Changmoo Kim

Kwontaek Kwon

Hyeongseok Yu

Seongwook Park

Deok Jae Oh

Wonjong Lee

John Dongjun Kim

Seok Hyun Kang

Yongmin Tai

Kiran Kolar Chandrasekharan

Saptarsi Das

Arnab Roy

Minseok Lee

Disclosed are a method of accessing a memory and an electronic device for performing the method. The electronic device includes a processor, and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the processor may be configured to select a rank including bank groups of the memory, select a bank corresponding to a memory address to be accessed from among banks included in the selected rank, select a row and one or more columns from rows and columns of the selected bank corresponding to the memory address, and generate the memory address to access the memory based on an address mapping scheme according to the selected rank, the selected bank, the selected row, and the selected one or more columns.

Method and device of accessing memory with near memory accelerator

A data processing apparatus spaced apart from a host and configured to process data in a memory in conjunction with the host includes a near-memory processing unit configured to receive a command from the host, compress or decompress the data in response to the command, and manage an entry of the compressed data; and a buffer configured to store the data or the compressed data based on the entry.

Data processing apparatus and method for zswap acceleration

Disclosed is an image processing method and apparatus. The image processing method includes obtaining visual information related to an object in an image, generating valid data from the image based on the visual information, and transmitting the valid data.

Image processing method and apparatus

A near-memory processing unit is configured to compress a page present in a normal memory space of a memory when receiving a swap-out command from a host, allocate a memory area in which the compressed page is to be stored in a compressed memory space which is a memory area previously allocated by the host, copy the compressed page into the allocated memory area, generate an entry corresponding to the compressed page, and insert the generated entry into an entry tree.

Device and method to minimize off-chip access between host and peripherals

An apparatus with graphics processing includes: a memory configured to store therein acceleration structure data and primitive data for performing three-dimensional (3D) rendering; and a first processor implemented in the memory and configured to receive ray information, determine a first spatial box by performing a traversal on an acceleration structure in which scene objects are spatially partitioned based on the acceleration structure data and the ray information, and determine a first intersection point for performing the 3D rendering based on the primitive data, the ray information, and the first spatial box.

Apparatus and method with graphics processing

A rendering method includes receiving an input including pixel pattern information of a device configured to display a rendered image, generating a pixel pattern of the rendered image using the received input indicating pixel pattern information, and outputting a pixel value of the rendered image into a frame buffer using the generated pixel pattern.

Rendering method, rendering apparatus, and electronic apparatus

A rendering method includes generating mipmap images of some levels with respect to texture and storing the generated mipmap images in a storage, receiving a request for the texture, calculating a level of a mipmap requested for the texture, determining whether the stored mipmap images include the mipmap image of the calculated level, and performing rendering by using at least one of the stored mipmap images, based on a result of the determining.

Method and apparatus for rendering

A texture processor includes: a texture cache configured to store textures; a controller configured to determine a texture address corresponding to a requested texture among the stored textures and read a texture corresponding to the texture address from the texture cache; a format converter configured to convert a format of the read texture into another format, based on a degree of texture precision required by a graphics processing unit (GPU); and a texture filter configured to perform texture filtering using the read texture having its format converted into the another format.

Texture processing apparatus and method

A method of executing a graphics pipeline includes calculating, while executing the graphics pipeline on a current frame, a resource for processing properties of an object included in a following frame, determining, based on a result of the calculating, whether to perform a pre-process for the object included in the following frame, performing the pre-processing, when the pre-process is determined to be performed, comprising transforming the properties of the object that are to be processed in a graphics pipeline for the following frame, and executing, when the pre-process is to be performed, the graphics pipeline for the following frame by using the transformed properties of the object.

Method and apparatus for executing graphics pipeline

A texture processing method of processing a compressed texel block in which texels constituting a texture are compressed into a predetermined block unit includes obtaining, based on the compressed texel block, a representative value of texels constituting a texel block, a weight for each of the texels constituting the texel block, and an index of the representative value and the weight corresponding to each of the texels constituting the texel block; storing the representative value, the weight, and the index in a texture cache; reading the representative value and the weight from the texture cache according to an index corresponding to a requested texel; generating texels based on the read representative value and the read weight; and performing texture filtering using the generated texels.

Texture processing method and unit

A method of calculating data includes acquiring a difference between first data that is input and second data that was previously stored; determining a method of generating third data corresponding to a result of a calculation of the first data based on the difference; and performing a calculation corresponding to the determined method using a calculator.

Method and apparatus for calculating data

A method and device for processing graphics data include generating primitives including objects in an image, classifying tiles dividing the image into scalable tile groups, generating a coverage pattern identifying primitives that are covered on tiles included in each scalable tile group, generating a bin stream including the coverage pattern corresponding to the each scalable tile groups, and performing rendering for each tile of the tiles using the bin stream.

Graphics processing device and operating method for performing tile-based graphics processing using the same

A processor and corresponding method are described including cores having a thread set allocated based on a pre-set implementation order, and a controller configured to receive scheduling information determined based on an implementation pattern regarding the allocated thread set from one of the cores and transmit the scheduling information to another of the cores. The one of cores determines the scheduling information according to characteristics of an application when implementation of the thread set is completed. Each of the cores re-determines an implementation order regarding the allocated thread set based on the determined scheduling information.

Method and processor for implementing thread and recording medium thereof

A tile-based rendering method includes performing binning of a current frame; generating an identification code of binning information or property information of a tile to be rendered in the current frame; comparing the identification code of the tile to be rendered to an identification code of a previous tile, wherein a location of the previous tile in a previous frame is the same as a location of the tile to be rendered in the current frame; and rendering the current frame by either re-using an image stored in a frame buffer or performing pixel processing of the tile to be rendered depending on a result of the comparing.

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Yeongon Cho