Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphic processing system
Patent
1995-08-14
1998-04-21
Chow, Dennis-Doon
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphic processing system
345193, 345195, 345467, 395110, G09G 522
Patent
active
057422982
ABSTRACT:
A VGA compatible graphics controller receives character data, attribute data and font data, each of which are stored in different planes of a display memory. The font data comprises bit maps of at least two character fonts, which may be user fonts or default fonts loaded from a controller BIOS. The video controller detects attempts by a host CPU to write data into plane two of display memory (where character font bit maps reside). The address generated by the host CPU is scrambled to produce a video font cache address. The character font bit maps are stored in a video font cache at the scrambled address. The font select bits of the CPU generated address are used as a byte select to store a particular font at a byte location at a selected video font cache address. In the preferred embodiment, eight fonts may be stored in the video font cache, one scan line each font of each character as a different byte at each address of the video font cache in a 64 bit wide DRAM.
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Bril Vlad
Partani Dwarka
Bell Robert P.
Chow Dennis-Doon
Cirrus Logic Inc.
Shaw Steven A.
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