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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2012
Walter E. Donovan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Emmett M. Kilgariff, San Jose, CA (US);
Karim M. Abdalla, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Joel J. Mccormack, Boulder, CO (US);
Walter E. Donovan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Emmett M. Kilgariff, San Jose, CA (US);
Karim M. Abdalla, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Joel J. McCormack, Boulder, CO (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of organizing memory for storage of texture data, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, includes accessing a size of a mipmap level of a texture map. A block dimension may be determined based on the size of the mipmap level. A memory space (e.g., computer-readable medium) may be logically divided into a plurality of whole number of blocks of variable dimension. The dimension of the blocks is measured in units of gobs and each gob is of a fixed dimension of bytes. A mipmap level of a texture map may be stored in the memory space. A texel coordinate of said mipmap level may be converted into a byte address of the memory space by determining a gob address of a gob in which the texel coordinate resides and determining a byte address within the particular gob.