Accelerating volume rendering using an on-chip SRAM occupancy map

ISCAS 2001 - 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 757-760

  Meissner M ^a   Doggett, M ^a   Kamus, U ^a   Hirche, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION CYCLE; EMPTY SPACE; FRAMES PER SECONDS; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; RAY CASTING; REAL-WORLD DATASETS; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; SPACE LEAPING;

HARDWARE; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

VOLUME RENDERING; STATIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

RAY CASTING ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 0035011609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2001.921181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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