3D graphics system with VLIW processor for geometry acceleration

Author

Jeon, Young-Wook ; Kwon, Young-Su ; Im, Yeon-Ho ; Lee, Jun-Hee ; Nam, Sang-Joon ; Kim, Byung-Woon ; Kyung, Chong-Min

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

367

Lastpage

370

Abstract

To process enormous 3D data, we have designed a VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) processor called FLOVA (Floating-Point VLIW Architecture) exploiting the ILP (Instruction-Level Parallelism) in 3D programs. This paper presents FGA (FLOVA Geometry Accelerator) that is the 3D graphics system and it almost removes the time required to process in the geometry stage. We have developed the 3D graphics library, FGA-GL, to supports the FGA system. The deferred primitive rendering algorithm of FGA-GL enables the geometry processing of the primitive data to be done concurrently with the host job such as primitive data management or game play. FGA improves the average performance of 3D graphics system by 2.5-3.0

Keywords

VLSI; add-on boards; computer graphic equipment; floating point arithmetic; microprocessor chips; parallel architectures; rendering (computer graphics); solid modelling; 3D data processing; 3D graphics system; 3D programs; FGA-GL 3D graphics library; FLOVA; VLIW processor; deferred primitive rendering algorithm; floating-point VLIW architecture; geometry acceleration; instruction-level parallelism; very long instruction word; Acceleration; Computer graphics; Electronics industry; Engines; Geometry; Libraries; Parallel processing; Pipelines; Rendering (computer graphics); VLIW;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ASICs, 2000. AP-ASIC 2000. Proceedings of the Second IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Cheju

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6470-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APASIC.2000.896985

Filename

896985