Scalable and unified compute system

Abstract

A Scalable and Unified Compute System performs scalable, repairable general purpose and graphics shading operations, memory load/store operations and texture filtering. A Scalable and Unified Compute. Unit Module comprises a shader pipe array, a texture mapping unit, and a level one texture cache system. It accepts ALU instructions, input/output instructions, and texture or memory requests for a specified set of pixels, vertices, primitives, surfaces, or general compute work items from a shader program and performs associated operations to compute the programmed output data. The texture mapping unit accepts source data addresses and instruction constants in order to fetch, format, and perform instructed filtering interpolations to generate formatted results based on the specific corresponding data stored in a level one texture cache system. The texture mapping unit consists of an address generating system, a pre-formatter module, interpolator module, accumulator module and a format module.