US Patent No: 7,710,425
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Graphic memory management with invisible hardware-managed page faulting
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May 4, 2010
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Jun 9, 2000
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09/591,225
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Abstract
A computer system in which a graphics accelerator unit manages page faulting of texture data invisibly to the host processor.
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| 5,790,130 Texel cache interrupt daemon for virtual memory management of texture maps | 66 | 1995 | |
| 6,124,865 Duplicate cache tag store for computer graphics system | 26 | 1995 | |
| 5,842,015 System and method for real-time control of hardware in a multiprocessing environment | 43 | 1996 | |
| 5,886,706 System for managing texture mapping data in a computer graphics system | 28 | 1997 | |
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| 5,548,709 Apparatus and method for integrating texture memory and interpolation logic in a computer system | 84 | 1994 | |
| 5,706,481 Apparatus and method for integrating texture memory and interpolation logic in a computer system | 81 | 1996 | |
| 5,880,737 Method and system for accessing texture data in environments with high latency in a graphics rendering system | 73 | 1996 | |
| 5,999,189 Image compression to reduce pixel and texture memory requirements in a real-time image generator | 119 | 1996 | |
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| 5,828,382 Apparatus for dynamic XY tiled texture caching | 65 | 1996 | |
| 5,831,640 Enhanced texture map data fetching circuit and method | 76 | 1996 | |
| 6,344,852 Optimized system and method for binning of graphics data | 63 | 1999 | |
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| 6,002,410 Reconfigurable texture cache | 74 | 1997 | |
| 6,297,832 Method and apparatus for memory access scheduling in a video graphics system | 18 | 1999 | |
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| 6,362,826 Method and apparatus for implementing dynamic display memory | 8 | 1999 | |
| 6,538,650 Efficient TLB entry management for the render operands residing in the tiled memory | 10 | 2000 | |
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| 6,202,146 Endianness checking for platform-independent device drivers | 5 | 1998 | |
| 6,246,422 Efficient method for storing texture maps in multi-bank memory | 35 | 1998 | |
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| 6,002,407 Cache memory and method for use in generating computer graphics texture | 48 | 1997 | |
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| 6,295,068 Advanced graphics port (AGP) display driver with restricted execute mode for transparently transferring textures to a local texture cache | 32 | 1999 | |
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| 5,696,927 Memory paging system and method including compressed page mapping hierarchy | 76 | 1995 | |
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| 6,249,853 GART and PTES defined by configuration registers | 24 | 1997 | |
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| 6,011,565 Non-stalled requesting texture cache | 43 | 1998 | |
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| 5,886,705 Texture memory organization based on data locality | 33 | 1996 | |
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| 5,548,740 Information processor efficiently using a plurality of storage devices having different access speeds and a method of operation thereof | 34 | 1993 | |
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| 6,374,404 Intelligent device having background caching of web pages from a digital television broadcast signal and method of same | 56 | 1998 | |
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| 5,594,860 Method for banding and rasterizing an image in a multiprocessor printing system | 54 | 1995 | |
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| 6,407,998 Multimedia decoder for prioritized bi-directional communication in a broadcast system | 23 | 1998 | |
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| 5,611,064 Virtual memory system | 26 | 1993 | |
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