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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2007
Applicants:
Justin Michael Mahan, Fremont, CA (US);
Edward A. Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael J. M. Toksvig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Justin Michael Mahan, Fremont, CA (US);
Edward A. Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael J. M. Toksvig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/61 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for loading a shader program from system memory into GPU memory. The method includes accessing the shader program in system memory of a computer system. A DMA transfer of the shader program from system memory into GPU memory is performed such that the shader program is loaded into GPU memory in an address independent manner.