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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Patrick A Harkin, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Cirrus Logic, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345506 ; 345526 ; 709103 ; 709104 ;
Abstract
A graphics system includes a graphics processor for rendering graphics primitives with a list of display parameters. A host processor generates a display list which includes a XY address for rendering the graphics primitives. A graphics processor which includes an arbitration logic device enables the graphics processor to temporarily arbitrate shared resources to dissimilar graphics drawing engines. The arbitration logic allows data from the dissimilar drawing engines to be prioritized, depending on the configuration of the underlying computer system, for accessing shared resources.