A TRANSFORM, LIGHTING AND RASTERIZATION SYSTEM EMBODIED ON ASINGLE SEMICONDUCTOR PLATFORM

摘要

A graphics pipeline system is provided for graphics processing. Such system includes a transform module (52) adapted for being coupled to a vertex attribute buffer (5) for receiving vertex data. The transform module (52) serves to transform the vertex data from object space to screen space. Coupl ed to the transform module is a lighting module (54) which is positioned on the single semiconductor platform for performing lighting operations on the vert ex data received from the transform module. Also included is a rasterizer (56) coupled to the lighting module (54) and positioned on the single semiconduct or platform for rendering the vertex data received from the lighting module (54 ).