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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2011
Yang (Jeff) Jiao, San Jose, CA (US);
Yijung Su, Alviso, CA (US);
John Brothers, Calistoga, CA (US);
Via Technologies, Inc., Taipei, TW;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to graphics processing systems, comprising: a plurality of execution units, wherein one of the execution units is configurable to process a thread corresponding to a rendering context, wherein the rendering context comprises a plurality of constants with a priority level; a constant buffer configurable to store the constants of the rendering context into a plurality of slot in a physical storage space; and an execution unit control unit configurable to assign the thread to one of the execution units; a constant buffer control unit providing a translation table for the rendering context to map the corresponding constants into the slots of the physical storage space. Comparable methods are also disclosed.