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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2004
Dominic Acocella, Blainville, CA;
Timothy J. Mcdonald, Austin, TX (US);
Robert W. Gimby, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Thomas H. Kong, Los Altos, CA (US);
Dominic Acocella, Blainville, CA;
Timothy J. McDonald, Austin, TX (US);
Robert W. Gimby, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Thomas H. Kong, Los Altos, CA (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for remapping units that are disabled to active units in a 3-D graphics pipeline. Specifically, in one embodiment, a method remaps processing elements in a pipeline of a graphics pipeline unit. Graphical input data are received. Then the number of enabled processing elements are determined from a plurality of processing elements. Each of the enabled processing elements are virtually addressed above a translator to virtually process the graphical input data. Then, the virtual addresses of each of the enabled processing elements are mapped to physical addresses of the enabled processing elements at the translator. The graphical input data are physically processed at the physical addresses of the enabled processing elements. In addition, each of the enabled processing elements are physically addressed below the translator to further process the graphical input data.