Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Block linear memory ordering of texture data techniques
- Patent Title (中): 阻止纹理数据技术的线性存储器排序
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Application No.: US13422498Application Date: 2012-03-16
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Publication No.: US08456481B2Publication Date: 2013-06-04
- Inventor: Walter E. Donovan , Emmett M. Kilgariff , Karim M. Abdalla , Joel J. McCormack
- Applicant: Walter E. Donovan , Emmett M. Kilgariff , Karim M. Abdalla , Joel J. McCormack
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00

Abstract:
A method of organizing memory for storage of texture data, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, includes accessing a size of a mipmap level of a texture map. A block dimension may be determined based on the size of the mipmap level. A memory space (e.g., computer-readable medium) may be logically divided into a plurality of whole number of blocks of variable dimension. The dimension of the blocks is measured in units of gobs and each gob is of a fixed dimension of bytes. A mipmap level of a texture map may be stored in the memory space. A texel coordinate of said mipmap level may be converted into a byte address of the memory space by determining a gob address of a gob in which the texel coordinate resides and determining a byte address within the particular gob.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120176377A1 BLOCK LINEAR MEMORY ORDERING OF TEXTURE DATA TECHNIQUES Public/Granted day:2012-07-12
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