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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
May. 02, 2014
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Anders Lassen, Trondheim, NO;
Jorn Nystad, Trondheim, NO;
Alexis Mather, Cambridge, GB;
Sean Tristram Ellis, Farnham, GB;
ARM LIMITED, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A tile-based graphics processing pipeline comprising a rasteriser, a renderer, a tile bufferconfigured to store rendered fragment data locally to the graphics processing pipeline prior to that data being written out to an external memory, a write out stageconfigured to write data stored in the tile buffer to an external memory, and a programmable processing stage. The programmable processing stageis operable under the control of graphics program instructions to read fragment data stored in the tile bufferon a random access basis, perform a processing operation using the read fragment data, and write the result of the processing operation into the tile bufferor to an external memory.