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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2007
Applicants:
Jim Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
Wen Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
LI Liang, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
Via Technologies, Inc., Taipei, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/36 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06T 11/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for graphics data management are described. One embodiment includes a method for reducing bank collisions within a level 2 (L2) cache comprising the following: reading texture data from external memory configured to store texture data used for texture filtering within the graphics processing unit, partitioning the texture data into banks, performing a bank swizzle operation on the banks, and writing the banks of data to the L2 cache.