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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2003
Konstantine Iourcha, San Jose, CA (US);
Boris Prokopenko, Milpitas, CA (US);
Timour Paltashev, Fremont, CA (US);
Derek Gladding, San Francisco, CA (US);
Konstantine Iourcha, San Jose, CA (US);
Boris Prokopenko, Milpitas, CA (US);
Timour Paltashev, Fremont, CA (US);
Derek Gladding, San Francisco, CA (US);
Via Technologies, Inc., Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A low-cost high-speed programmable rasterizer accepting an input set of functionals representing a triangle, clipping planes and a scissoring box, and producing multiple spans per clock cycle as output. A Loader converts the input set from a general form to a special case form accepted by a set of Edge Generators, the restricted input format accepted by the Edge Generators contributing to their efficient hardware implementation.