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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2006
Andrew J. Tao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vimal S. Parikh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yan Yan Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew J. Tao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vimal S. Parikh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yan Yan Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for buffering graphics data are described. In one embodiment, a graphics processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a reorder control unit that is connected to the storage unit. The reorder control unit is configured to coordinate storage of vertex attributes in the storage unit so as to convert the vertex attributes from an initial order to a modified order. The reorder control unit is configured to identify a subset of the vertex attributes to be stored within a common range of addresses in the storage unit, and the reorder control unit is configured to access the storage unit such that the subset of the vertex attributes is written into the storage unit substantially in parallel.