COMBINED FLOATING-POINT LOGIC CORE AND FRAME BUFFER

Patent №

US 6,532,018

Granted

2003-03-11

Filed 1999

Owner

SILICON GRAPHICS, INC.

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AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09294546

A method and apparatus for graphical processing. A logic core to perform pixel fragment manipulation and processing is instantiated on a single substrate with one or more memory units. The memory units are dynamically segmentable into frame buffer and texture memory. Because the logic core is on the same substrate as the memory units, the bandwidth between the core and the memory is greatly increased.

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Natural language0.04
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

SILICON GRAPHICS, INC.

assignment · 105880114

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 136560029

Assignors

CHEN, EDWARD C., GROSSMAN, MARK S.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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