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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
May. 25, 2011
Andreas Due Engh-halstvedt, Trondheim, NO;
Jørn Nystad, Trondheim, NO;
Andreas Due Engh-Halstvedt, Trondheim, NO;
Jørn Nystad, Trondheim, NO;
ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A graphics processing unitincludes a texture pipelinewhich performs filter operations upon texture values. If the texture values are integer texture values, then they may be processed by the texture pipeline in a variable order corresponding to the order in which they are retrieved from a memory. If the texture values are floating point texture values, then they are processed in a fixed order in order to ensure result invariants as the filter operation is non-associative for floating point values. The filter operation is not commenced until all of the floating point texture values have been retrieved from the memoryand other available for processing.