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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kim A Meinerth, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Aditya Sreenivas, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Krishnan Sreenivas, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345522 ; 345502 ;
Abstract
A method for mutual exclusion of drawing engine execution on a graphics device is disclosed. The method checks a busy signal of an executing drawing engine. The executing drawing engine is one of a plurality of drawing engines of the graphics device and the only drawing engine executing out of the plurality of drawing engines. The method forwards a graphics instruction and associated data packet to a next drawing engine to execute after the executing drawing engine has completed execution. The next drawing engine to execute is one of the plurality of drawing engines.