(2) Graphics Accelerator
A Dedicated hardware is used for the inefficient processing in the CPU. Thus, CPU bus
efficiency is improved and high-speed realtime drawing is realized (see figure 1.5).
Dedicated hardware is used for
insufficient processing in CPU
Making display list by CPU
Drawing in UGM according
to display list by Q2SD
CPU bus efficiency is improved
by using Q2SD for all rendering
processing High-speed realtime
drawing
Rendering
SD Operation
2
Geometric
Operation
SuperH
RISC engine
Control
Coordinates
Operation
Figure 1.5 Graphics Accelerator
(3) Pipeline Graphics Processing:
High-speed graphics processing is enabled by pipelining the CPU geometry processing and
Q2SD rendering processing (see figure 1.6).
CPU Geometry 1 Rendering 1 Geometry 2 Rendering 2 Geometry 3 Rendering 3
CPU Geometry 1 Geometry 2 Geometry 3
Q2SD
Rendering 1 Rendering 2 Rendering 3
Processing time
Figure 1.6 Pipeline Graphics Processing
(4) Use of Write-Only Drawing:
Write-only drawing (a drawing method using only write operations) is used to improve drawing
performance.
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