A low-cost raster engine for video game, multimedia PC and interactive TV

Author

Chen, Chein-Liang ; Liang, Bor-Sung ; Jen, Chein-Wei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

41

Issue

3

fYear

1995

fDate

8/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

724

Lastpage

730

Abstract

A low-cost Raster Engine (RE) is designed and implemented to improve the performance of 3D computer graphics and image composition application for video games, multimedia PCs and interactive TVs. Three operation modes: Gouraud and Phong shading algorithms, and image composition are incorporated in this chip. Modified digital differential analyzer (DDA), 2-level pipeline, and constant execution time for calculating cosⁿ θ are proposed as the features of this design. The accelerator is implemented by 0.8 μm SPDM CMOS VLSI technology and able to release more then 50% CPU loads

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; VLSI; computer games; computer graphic equipment; computer graphics; digital signal processing chips; games of skill; interactive television; interactive video; multimedia systems; video equipment; 0.8 micron; 0.8 micron SPDM CMOS VLSI technology; 2-level pipeline; 3D computer graphics; CPU loads; accelerator; constant execution time; digital differential analyzer; image composition application; interactive TV; low-cost raster engine; multimedia PC; video game; Application software; Computer graphics; Engines; Games; Multimedia systems; Optical reflection; Pipelines; Rendering (computer graphics); Solid modeling; TV;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.468017

Filename

468017