A TRANSFORM, LIGHTING AND RASTERIZATION SYSTEM EMBODIED ON A SINGLE 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. Coupled to the transform module is a lighting module (54) which is positioned on the single semiconductor platform for performing lighting operations on the vertex data received from the transform module. Also included is a rasterizer (56) coupled to the lighting module (54) and positioned on the single semiconductor platform for rendering the vertex data received from the lighting module (54).