Checkerboard buffer using two-dimensional buffer pages and...

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2006-08-08

2006-08-08

Bella, Matthew C. (Department: 2676)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics display memory system

Graphic display memory controller

C345S536000, C345S545000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07088369

ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatus for storing and retrieving data. In one implementation, a system includes: a data source, providing data in a first order; a data destination, receiving data in a second order; memory devices having memory pages, data stored in parallel and retrieved in parallel; each buffer page having entries along a first dimension corresponding to the first order and entries along a second dimension corresponding to the second order, data stored according to the first order using blocks of buffer pages, each block having a number of pages equal to a power of 2, data stored in the first order and retrieved in the second order, at least one memory page stores data in multiple locations according to the first and second orders, data elements consecutive in the first order are stored in parallel, data elements consecutive in the second order are retrieved in parallel.

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