Gleitkommaprozessor für einen hochleistungsfähigen dreidimensionalen Graphikbeschleuniger

摘要

A floating-point processor for a high performance three dimensional graphics accelerator in a computer system is disclosed. The floating-point processor implements specialized graphics micro instructions. The specialized graphics micro instructions include a swap micro instruction which causes a hardware remapping of general purpose register groups to sort triangle vertices. The specialized graphics micro instructions also include specialized conditional branches for three dimensional geometry.