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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2007
Yang (Jeff) Jiao, San Jose, CA (US);
Mike Hong, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yin LI, Shanghai, CN;
Yunjie Xu, Shanghai, CN;
Yang (Jeff) Jiao, San Jose, CA (US);
Mike Hong, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yin Li, Shanghai, CN;
Yunjie Xu, Shanghai, CN;
Via Technologies, Inc., Hsin-Tien, Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A system for integrating triangle setup and attribute setup operations into a programmable execution unit of a graphics processing unit is disclosed. A method for integrating triangle setup and attribute setup operations into a programmable execution unit graphics processing unit is also disclosed. In one embodiment, at least one execution unit is configured for multi-threaded operation. The at least one execution unit is configured to execute at least one thread for triangle setup operations and attribute setup operations as well as threads for pixel shader, geometry shader and vertex shader operations.