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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2002
Douglas A. Voorhies, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Matthew Craighead, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mark J. Kilgard, Austin, TX (US);
Edward Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cass W. Everitt, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Douglas A. Voorhies, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Matthew Craighead, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mark J. Kilgard, Austin, TX (US);
Edward Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cass W. Everitt, Pflugerville, TX (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for conditional branching in a hardware graphics pipeline. Initially, a plurality of graphics commands is received. Condition data is then affected based on at least some of the graphics commands utilizing the hardware graphics pipeline. At least one of the graphics commands is then conditionally skipping based on the condition data in response to another graphics command utilizing the hardware graphics pipeline.