The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2016
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Andreas Due Engh-Halstvedt, Trondheim, NO;
David James Bermingham, Cambridge, GB;
Amir Kleen, Cambridge, GB;
Jørn Nystad, Trondheim, NO;
Kenneth Edvard Østby, Cambridge, GB;
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A graphics processing unitincludes a rasterizer, a thread spawner, a programmable execution unit, a varying interpolator, a texture mapper, and a blender. The programmable execution unitis able to communicate with the varying interpolator, the texture mapperand the blenderto request processing operations by those graphic specific accelerators. In addition to this, these graphics-specific accelerators are also able to communicate directly with each other and with the thread spawner, independently of the programmable execution unit. This allows for certain graphics processing operations to be performed using direct communication between the graphics-specific accelerators of the graphics processing unit, instead of executing instructions in the programmable execution unit to trigger the performance of those operations by the graphics-specific accelerators.