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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1995. Digest of Technical Papers. 41st ISSCC, 1995 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2495-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.1995.535565
