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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
May. 18, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael G. Lavelle, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ewa M. Kubalska, San Jose, CA (US);
Elena M. Ing, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/206 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/206 ;
Abstract
A memory array management unit suitable for use in a computer graphics system is described. The unit is especially designed to facilitate the storage of tiles of graphics data. Alignment detection between the tiles and memory block boundaries is provided for, with misalignments resulting in the automatic decimation to produce sub-tiles and generation of multiple memory write sequences.