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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2007
Lin Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Junhong Sun, San Diego, CA (US);
Guofang Jiao, San Diego, CA (US);
Chihong Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
Lingjun Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Lin Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Junhong Sun, San Diego, CA (US);
Guofang Jiao, San Diego, CA (US);
Chihong Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
Lingjun Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes system and method of mapping shader variables into physical registers. In an embodiment, a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a memory coupled to the GPU are disclosed. The memory includes a processor readable data file that has a register file portion. The register file portion has a rectangular structure including a plurality of data items. At least two of the plurality of data items corresponding to data elements of a shader program. The data elements have different data storage types.