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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/00 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01);
Abstract
A graphics processing unit (GPU) may allocate a shared data channel in on-chip graphics memory of the GPU that is shared by at least two stages of a graphics processing pipeline. Shader units in the GPU may execute the at least two stages of the graphics processing pipeline. The GPU may store, in the shared data channel in on-chip graphics memory, data produced by each of the at least two stages of the graphics processing pipeline executing on the shader units.