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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1989
Michael A Denio, Sugar Land, TX (US);
William S Egr, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Douglas C Crawford, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Michael D Asal, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Graham Short, Sugar Land, TX (US);
James G Littleton, Houston, TX (US);
Jerry R Van Aken, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An interface for use with a multiprocessor computer system, having a host processor system and a graphics processor system. The interface permits extended functions to be developed on the host system or on another system, and subsequently loaded to the graphics processor system. The interface comprises software residing on both the host system side and the graphics system side, which operates at run time to permit the function to be called from a main program running on the host. The function's arguments are passed to the graphics system so that the function is executed by the graphics processor.