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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2005
Applicants:
Lukito Muliadi, San Jose, CA (US);
Justin S. Legakis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Lukito Muliadi, San Jose, CA (US);
Justin S. Legakis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/80 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A graphics processing unit has a set of parallel processing units. A primitive pipeline delivers tiles of a primitive to selected processing units of the set of processing units. An attribute pipeline distributes attributes to the selected processing units when the end of the primitive is reached, while withholding attributes from the remaining processing units of the set of processing units.