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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2002
Elisa Rodrigues, Union City, CA (US);
Lisa C. Grenier, San Jose, CA (US);
Nimita J. Taneja, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Elisa Rodrigues, Union City, CA (US);
Lisa C. Grenier, San Jose, CA (US);
Nimita J. Taneja, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A graphics system comprising a scheduling network, a sample buffer and a plurality of filtering units. The sample buffer is configured to store sample generated by a rendering engine. The plurality of filtering units are coupled in a linear series. Each filtering unit of the linear series is configured to send a request for a scanline of sample bins to a first filtering unit of the linear series. The first filtering unit is configured to service the scanline requests by sending burst requests to a scheduling network and coordinating the flow of samples forming the bursts from the sample buffer to the filtering units.