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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2019
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Sean Tristram LeGuay Ellis, Farnham, GB;
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A sequence of instructions is included in a graphics processing shader program for controlling the way in which blending is implemented. The sequence of instructions includes a blend instruction which determines whether blending for a processing item is to be performed by fixed-function blending hardware or by executing a blend shader routine. If blend shading is to be performed, a sequence of instructions for setting up and performing blend shading is executed. If fixed-function blending is to be performed, an execution thread initiates fixed-function blending in response to the blend instruction, and skips over the sequence of instructions for setting up and performing blend shading.