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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2015
Applicant:
Via Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD., Shanghai, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for a programmable primitive setup in a 3D graphics pipeline is introduced to contain at least the following steps. Information about first and third primitives is obtained from a buffer. The information about all or a portion of the first primitives is packed and sent to an SS (Setup Shader) thread. Information about a second primitive to be clipped is packed and sent to a GBS (Guard-Band-clipping Shader) thread. The information about all or a portion of the third primitives is packed and sent to an AS (Attribute Shader) thread.