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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2007
John Erik Lindholm, Cupertino, CA (US);
David B. Kirk, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Henry P. Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
Simon Moy, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Cupertino, CA (US);
David B. Kirk, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Henry P. Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
Simon Moy, Mountain View, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for programmable processing in a computer graphics pipeline. Initially, data is received from a source buffer. Thereafter, programmable operations are performed on the data in order to generate output. The operations are programmable in that a user may utilize instructions from a predetermined instruction set for generating the same. Such output is stored in a register. During operation, the output stored in the register is used in performing the programmable operations on the data.