摘要:
The apparatus comprises an input memory 102 for storing data necessary for geometrical operations, such as coordinate transformation, luminance calculation, and clipping operation of graphics; a global bus connected to the input memory; a plurality of floating process memories connected to the global bus, for receiving data necessary for geometrical operations; a sequencer for transmitting data necessary for geometrical operations, stored in the input memory, to the plurality of floating process memories; and a plurality of floating processing units each connected to a respective one of the plurality of floating process memories, for independently executing geometrical operations, using data transmitted from the floating process memories.
摘要:
An output FIFO data transfer control device can comprise a geometric arithmetic core including one integer processing unit or IPU and a plurality of floating-point processing units or FPUs. Each processing unit includes an intermediate buffer or data output buffer for storing a data on an arithmetic result. When an instruction of data transfer from at least one of the plurality of processing units to one output FIFO is issued, a write/read pointer generating unit generates a write pointer identifying a specific location where data on an arithmetic result associated with the instruction is to be stored in the intermediate buffer of at least one of the plurality of processing units. The write/read pointer generating unit also generates a read pointer identifying a specific location where data is to be read out of the intermediate buffer of at least one of the plurality of processing units. A transfer mode setting unit sets a transfer mode identifying which at least one of the plurality of processing units is to transfer data on an arithmetic result, and sequentially furnishes a read enable signal to at least one of the plurality of processing units so as to read out the data from the intermediate buffer of at least one of the plurality of processing units.
摘要:
The geometry processor includes mutually independent first and second external interface ports connected to a host processor, and a rendering processor, respectively, and a geometry calculation core which processes a geometry calculation applied through the first external interface port from the host processor. The geometry calculation core includes a plurality of SIMD type floating point calculating units, a floating point power computing unit, an integer calculating unit, a controller responsive to an instruction from the host processor which controls the plurality of floating point calculating units, the floating point power computing unit and the integer calculating unit to process data from the host processor, and an output controller which outputs the processed data to the rendering processor through the second external interface port.
摘要:
A power operation device comprises a bit operation unit or performing a bit shift operation on a logarithmic base bit string from a logarithm operation unit according to an input exponent bit string Y, and for furnishing the shifted logarithmic base bit string as a multiplication bit string. An exponent checking unit checks whether or not the input exponent bit string Y is the ith power of a base 2 where i is an integer, and, if so, furnishes a selection signal to direct selection of the multiplication bit string from the bit operation unit. A multiplication bit string selection unit selects and furnishes the multiplication bit string when it receives the selection signal from the exponent checking unit. In contrast, the multiplication bit string selection unit selects and furnishes another multiplication bit string from a multiplier otherwise. An exponential operation unit performs a base-2 exponential operation on the selected multiplication bit string from the multiplication bit string selection unit, i.e., computes 2Z where Z is the selected multiplication bit string, and furnishes the computed base-2 exponential value as the power operation-result XY.
摘要:
An execution processor that can carry out power calculation at high speed includes a base data register, an exponent data register, a multiplier, a multiplication input selector for selecting an input to the multiplier, first and second registers for storing a calculation result of the multiplier, a square root calculation unit, a square root calculation input selector for selecting an input to the square root calculation unit, a third register for storing a calculation result of the square root calculation unit, and a power calculation controller. The power calculation controller checks the integer region of the exponent data register for each bit while providing input/output control of the multiplication input selector, the first register, and the second register, and checks the decimal fraction region of the exponent data register for each bit to provide input/output control of the square root calculation input selector, the multiplication input selector, the first register, the second register, and the third register.
摘要:
It is judged that a vertex exists within a view volume when values stored in registers (231 to 236) are all "1". In other words, whether the vertex exists within or beyond the view volume can be judged by whether the values stored in the registers (231 to 236) are all "1" or not. To meet this requirement, a clip code generation/judgment unit (20) comprises a 6-input AND gate (24) which obtains a logical product of the values stored in the registers (231 to 236) to output a judgment signal (M1). With this configuration, a first step for clipping, i.e., the judgment on whether a primitive exists within or beyond a view volume is implemented in hardware, and thereby the operating speed is improved.
摘要:
The method of routing configuration accesses applied from the primary port to a plurality of secondary ports includes the steps of: distributing a plurality of configuration accesses received from the primary bus to the plurality of secondary ports in accordance with a predetermined algorithm, such that each of the devices on the secondary ports receives and responds to exactly a single access; and terminating configuration cycles after distributing the plurality of configuration accesses.
摘要:
An input section inputs vertex data from a host CPU or a geometry process section to a rendering main process section. The rendering main process section performs a rendering process in accordance with the vertex data inputted into the input section. Therefore, the host CPU can directly write the vertex data, which does not require a geometry process, to a rendering process apparatus and a processing speed of an overall graphics system can be thereby improved.
摘要:
An input section inputs vertex data from a host CPU or a geometry process section to a rendering main process section. The rendering main process section performs a rendering process in accordance with the vertex data inputted into the input section. Therefore, the host CPU can directly write the vertex data, which does not require a geometry process, to a rendering process apparatus and a processing speed of an overall graphics system can be thereby improved.
摘要:
An instruction analyzing unit sequentially analyzes instructions of a program which is inputted to a program inputting unit. A NOP instruction analyzing part encodes continuous NOP instructions as one continuous NOP instruction. An instruction code outputting unit outputs the instruction encoded by the instruction analyzing unit as an object code. Therefore, the size of the object code can be reduced.