Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphic processing system – Interface
Patent
1995-06-07
2000-01-25
Tung, Kee M.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphic processing system
Interface
345508, 711 5, 711157, G06F 1316
Patent
active
060183543
ABSTRACT:
This invention discloses a method for accessing Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) to store and retrieve data words associated with a two dimensional image. The DRAM includes two separate banks, a first bank and a second bank. Each bank is capable of operating in page mode to read and write the data words. The two dimensional image is organized in a two dimensional grid pattern of cells, each cell containing an M by N matrix of pixels. The words associated with each cell occupy one page or less of a bank. Each cell is assigned a particular one of the two banks so that all data words associated with that particular cell are read from and written to one particular page of that particular bank. The assignment of banks to cells is done such that each cell is associated with a different bank than any bordering cell which is also either in the same row or in the same column. There is then read the data words associated with a cell that is composed of a matrix of pixels and is not aligned with the two dimensional grid pattern, but is aligned with pixels in cells in the two dimensional grid pattern.
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Jones Anthony Mark
Paterson Donald William Walker
Bollella Donald
Braun Robert T.
Discovision Associates
Gaetje Clay E.
Tung Kee M.
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