A 3-way SIMD engine for programmable triangle setup in embedded 3D graphics hardware

—A triangle setup engine (TSE) generates setup parameters for rasterization in 3D graphics hardware. Since the TSE must be flexible for various embedded systems, a programmable TSE is proposed especially optimized for a division-free rasterizer and it shows performance improvement up to 4.76 times derived by 3-way SIMD architecture with special instructions for matrix-vector multiplication. It is integrated with an optimized format converter in 0.13um CMOS technology. Its gate count is 210kgates and the power consumption is 49.1mW at 166MHz operation frequency.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ISCAS
• Authors: Kyusik Chung, Donghyun Kim, Lee-Sup Kim
• Keywords: 3-way Simd Architecture, ISCAS 2005, Programmable Tse, —A Triangle Setup