Patent ID: 11972503
Assignee: ARM LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. The method of claim 7, wherein using the information to control the early culling tester comprises:
when the early culling tester is to perform an early culling test that is expected to read from, but not write to, a culling test data buffer:
determining whether to stall the early culling test based on whether the information indicates that a processing stage of the graphics processing pipeline after the early culling tester is expected to read from, but not write to, the same position in the same culling test data buffer as the early culling test is expected to read from; and
when it is determined to stall the early culling test, stalling the early culling test; and
when it is not determined to stall the early culling test, performing the early culling test without stalling.