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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2006
Peter Holmqvist, Cary, NC (US);
Robert Stoll, Los Altos, CA (US);
Peter Holmqvist, Cary, NC (US);
Robert Stoll, Los Altos, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A data buffer incorporated in the read return path between a processing pipeline and a frame buffer enables data reads from the buffer to be in a different order from data writes to the buffer. With this buffer, the frame buffer no longer is required to process read requests in any particular order and can be configured for improved processing speeds. The buffer includes a RAM to which data from the frame buffer is written according to a first order and from which data is read according to a second order. The buffer may be configured with multiple RAMs if the speed of data arriving from the frame buffer is greater than the write speed of the RAM.