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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2004
Alexei V. Bourd, San Diego, CA (US);
Shuaib Uddin Arshad, San Diego, CA (US);
Alexei V. Bourd, San Diego, CA (US);
Shuaib Uddin Arshad, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A cache stores data for use in rasterizing graphics data. The size of the cache is equal to a selected tile size. A processor performs the rasterization of the graphics image by subdividing the graphics image into a plurality of sub-blocks. The sub-blocks are processed, based on a block processing order, by further subdivision of the sub-blocks into tiles for those sub-blocks that have graphics image data. The tiles have a size equal to the selected tile size. Data, associated with a tile, is loaded into the cache, and the cache data is utilized to generate pixels for the associated tile of the graphics image.