Patent ID: 7580042
Filing Date: 2009-08-25
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A graphics accelerator in a video graphics system comprising: a graphic processing unit that receives vertex data from an external source, that performs texture processing on the vertex data and that generates a requested address of requested texture data based on the vertex data; an address modifier unit that receives the requested address corresponding to the requested texture data to be accessed in a system memory from the graphic processing unit to perform the texture processing, the system memory having multiple individually accessible memory banks in which texture data are stored in an interleaved arrangement, the address modifier converting the requested address to generate a converted requested address that is transmitted to access multiple banks of the system memory such that requested texture data corresponding to the requested address are retrieved, and such that additional texture data from the other memory banks in the interleaved arrangement are retrieved, wherein the address modifier unit further receives memory bank information that indicates a number of the memory banks in the system memory that are interleaved.