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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2008
Applicants:
Yang (Jeff) Jiao, San Jose, CA (US);
Yijung Su, Alviso, CA (US);
John Brothers, Calistoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Via Technologies, Inc., Hsin-Tien, Taipei, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments of systems and methods for managing a constant buffer with rendering context specific data in multithreaded parallel computational GPU core are disclosed. Briefly described, one method embodiment, among others, comprises responsive to a first shader operation, receiving at a constant buffer a first group of constants corresponding to a first rendering context, and responsive to a second shader operation, receiving at the constant buffer a second group of constants corresponding to a second context without flushing the first group.