Title :
An advanced graphics chip with bump-mapped Phong shading
Author :
Ikedo, Tsuneo ; Ma, Jianhua
Author_Institution :
Comput. Archit. Lab., Aizu Univ., Japan
Abstract :
A light-reflected computer graphics shading circuit has been developed to be used as computer graphics processor in PCs and workstations. Its hardware implementation in ASIC of Phong shader, bump-mapping, and sine filter for texture mapping may be the first such technology in this field. A chip can simultaneously draw four million vectors (10-pixel arbitrary slopes)/s, and render 1.2 million polygons (100-pixel 3-D triangles)/s. While applying Phong shading, bump and texture mapping, and hidden surface removal in a frame buffer system, implemented as a single-port DRAM. 940,000 gate CMOS with 0.3 μm CMOS rules in a TCP package is used
Keywords :
CMOS digital integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; computer graphic equipment; coprocessors; digital signal processing chips; hidden feature removal; rendering (computer graphics); ASIC; CMOS rules; TCP package; advanced graphics chip; bump-mapped Phong shading; bump-mapping; computer graphics processor; frame buffer system; hidden surface removal; light-reflected computer graphics shading circuit; sine filter; single-port DRAM; texture mapping; Application specific integrated circuits; Computer graphics; Filters; Hardware; Packaging; Personal communication networks; Random access memory; Rendering (computer graphics); Surface texture; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Graphics International, 1997. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Hasselt and Diepenbeek
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0185-0
DOI :
10.1109/CGI.1997.601297
