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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2021
Applicant:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Andreas Due Engh-Halstvedt, Trondheim, NO;
Frank Klaeboe Langtind, Melhus, NO;
Mark Underwood, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating a graphics processor that executes a graphics processing pipeline comprising a vertex shading stage is disclosed. A set of blocks of memory space that may be represented by a linked list is provided and memory space for storing vertex shaded attribute data generated by the vertex shading stage is allocated from one of the blocks of memory space in the set of blocks of memory space. When data stored in a block of memory space is no longer needed by the graphics processing pipeline, the block can be 'recycled' for use by the pipeline.