A SCALABLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE GRAPHICS PROCESSOR - GVIP

The GVIP (geometric and TV image processor) graphics processor, which creates and synthesizes computer graphics and TV images and meets the requirements of multi-media systems, is described. The hardware modules that make up this graphics processor include: a 32-bit embedded RISC processor, a Phong and Gouraud shading processor, a texture mapping processor, a hidden surface removal processor, an HDTV video image processor, a BitBlt processor, an image-processing module, and an outline font fill generator. These hardware modules fabricated using 0.8 mu m CMOS standard cells have been placed in three integrated circuit chips. The total number of gates used for one set of chips is approximately 350000.