A Two-Dimensional Frame Buffer Processor

Kaufman, Arie

A Two-Dimensional Frame Buffer Processor

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Date

1987

Authors

Kaufman, Arie

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

The two-dimensional Frame Buffer Processor (FBP) is part of a proposed raster graphics computer architecture. It is a hardware-oriented organisation of a variation of a bitblt engine with a much richer repertoire. In addition, the FBP gives support to window management, transformations, and assists in some image operations ordinarily performed in software. The introduction of the FBP as a co-processor to geometry and video processors would increase efficiency and speed of graphics systems and bitmap workstations. A special skewed frame-buffer organisation, which allows parallel memory access, further improves system performance.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:EGGH/EGGH87/093-109
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware
},
editor = {Fons Kuijk and Wolfgang Strasser
},
title = {{A Two-Dimensional Frame Buffer Processor
}},
author = {Kaufman, Arie
},
year = {1987
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-3471
},
ISBN = {3-540-50109-6
},
DOI = {10.2312/EGGH/EGGH87/093-109
}
}