| 摘要 |
Disclosed is a multifunction cogenerator or graphics processor (10) for use in a graphics rendering processor. The graphics processor (10) comprises dual graphics engines operating in parallel, with one of the engines having higher operating priority than the other. The graphics processor (10) comprises a conics, vector, and area fill generator (43), a symbol generator (45), a bit block transfer operator (47), and a block texturing and complex clip mask processor (30) synchronously controlled by a multi-process scheduler (46). Included in the graphics processor (10) is a large display memory (26) for receiving and storing program instructions and data generated by an external host processor (14), internal generators and processors, and a bit mapped memory of a graphics display. The graphics processor (10) provides hardware specific graphics functions and externally programmable general purpose processing <IMAGE> |
