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Systems and Methods for Providing a Shared Buffer in a Multiple FIFO Environment

  • US 20080143733A1
  • Filed: 12/19/2006
  • Published: 06/19/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for sharing a buffer in a multiple first-in-first-out (FIFO) computer graphics processing environment, comprising:

  • a shared buffer configured to receive a plurality of attribute values corresponding to a plurality of graphics data values;

    a plurality of data processing components, organized serially in a computer graphics pipeline, configured to process the plurality of graphics data values;

    a plurality of pointer arrays, organized serially in the computer graphics pipeline and configured to maintain a plurality of pointers, corresponding to the plurality of attribute values; and

    a buffer mask configured to identify at least one location of available memory in the shared buffer.

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