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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Industry & Academic Cooperation Group of Sejong University, Seoul, KR;
Kwon Taek Kwon, Seoul, KR;
Youngsik Kim, Seoul, KR;
Woo Chan Park, Seoul, KR;
Young Duke Seo, Seoul, KR;
Sang Oak Woo, Anyang, KR;
Seok Yoon Jung, Seoul, KR;
Duk Ki Hong, Seongnam, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
INDUSTRY & ACADEMIC COOPERATION GROUP AT SEJONG UNIVERSITY, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A non-blocking texture cache memory for a texture mapping pipeline and an operation method of the non-blocking texture cache memory may include: a retry buffer configured to temporarily store result data according to a hit pipeline or a miss pipeline; a retry buffer lookup unit configured to look up the retry buffer in response to a texture request transferred from a processor; a verification unit configured to verify whether result data corresponding to the texture request is stored in the retry buffer as the lookup result; and an output control unit configured to output the stored result data to the processor when the result data corresponding to the texture request is stored as the verification result.