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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
May. 14, 2004
Viet-tam Luu, San Jose, CA (US);
Russell Pflughaupt, San Jose, CA (US);
Viet-Tam Luu, San Jose, CA (US);
Russell Pflughaupt, San Jose, CA (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Determining a schedule of instructions for an integrated circuit graphics pipeline. The method includes accessing a state of a host system. The state comprises operations to be performed on fragments to be processed by the graphics pipeline. The method further includes determining a vector based on the state and indexing a table based on the vector to obtain a predetermined listing and ordering of macro-operations to be executed. The method still further includes determining instructions for programming the graphics pipeline based the executing of the macro-operations in the scheduled order.