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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
May. 14, 2004
Edward A. Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian K. Angell, San Jose, CA (US);
Edward A. Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian K. Angell, San Jose, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention include an arithmetic logic unit for use in a graphics pipeline. The arithmetic logic unit comprising a plurality of scalar arithmetic logic subunits wherein each subunit performs a resultant arithmetic logic operation in the form of [a*b 'op' c*d] on a set of input operands a, b, c and d. The arithmetic logic unit also for produces a result based thereon wherein 'op' represents a programmable operation and wherein further the resultant arithmetic logic operation is software programmable to implement a plurality of different graphics functions.