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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2021
Applicant:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Skyler Jonathon Saleh, San Diego, CA (US);
Fataneh F. Ghodrat, Boxborough, MA (US);
Jeffrey Christopher Allan, Boxborough, MA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G06T 17/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06T 17/10 (2013.01); G06T 2210/21 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique for performing ray tracing operations is provided. The technique includes traversing through a bounding volume hierarchy to an instance node; performing an instance node transform using common circuitry; traversing to a leaf node of the bounding volume hierarchy; and performing an intersection test for the leaf node using the common circuitry.