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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1992
Michael A Aranda, Saugerties, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A modified frame buffer and pixel variable read-modify-write method are described for a high performance computer graphics system. Pixel variables are initially classified as decision variables, intensity variables or decision/intensity variables. Only decision/intensity variables requiring a read-modify-write operation, are stored in dual interleaved DRAMs for improved bandwidth. Decision variables and intensity variables each utilize a single address/data bus per video RAM module in the frame buffer, while decision/intensity variables require dual address/data buses for accessing the interleaved memory banks. Enhanced bandwidth is obtained with a minimization of raster engine I/O requirements.