• DocumentCode
    2703902
  • Title

    A 10 Mb 3D frame buffer memory with Z-compare and alpha-blend units

  • Author

    Inoue, Ken ; Nakamura, Hajime ; Kawai, Hiroyuki ; Tani, Tomoyuki ; Sakemi, Yumi ; Matsuoka, Hikari ; Ishikawa, Masatoshi ; Matsumoto, Jun ; Yamamoto, Koji ; Takahashi, Koichi ; Yamawaki, Minoru ; Yokomoto, E. ; Hart, C.A. ; Lin, James ; Ishihara, Koichi ;

  • Author_Institution
    Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Itami, Japan
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    15-17 Feb. 1995
  • Firstpage
    302
  • Lastpage
    303
  • Abstract
    Describes a 3D-RAM frame buffer memory that integrates Z-compare and /spl alpha/-blend units on a single 10 Mb DRAM chip. 3D-RAM greatly accelerates rendering speed to 400 Mpixel/s, ten times as fast as conventional DRAMs and VRAMs.
  • Keywords
    DRAM chips; buffer storage; memory architecture; rendering (computer graphics); synchronisation; 10 Mbit; 3D frame buffer memory; DRAM chip; Z-compare; alpha-blend units; rendering speed; Bandwidth; Cathode ray tubes; Content addressable storage; Equations; Graphics; Pipelines; Random access memory; SDRAM; Tin; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1995. Digest of Technical Papers. 41st ISSCC, 1995 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    0193-6530
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2495-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.1995.535565
  • Filename
    535565