A 195 mW, 9.1 MVertices/s fully programmable 3-D graphics processor for low-power mobile devices

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2370-2380

  Woo, Jeong Ho ^a   Sohn, Ju Ho ^a,b   Kim, Hyejung ^a   Yoo, Hoi Jun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b LG Electronics Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

3 D graphics; Low power design; Programmable; Unified shader

Indexed keywords

3-D GRAPHICS; CMOS PROCESSES; GRAPHICS PROCESSORS; LIGHTING ENGINES; LOW POWER DESIGN; LOW POWERS; POWER REDUCTIONS; PROGRAMMABLE; REAL APPLICATIONS; SYSTEM EVALUATIONS; UNIFIED SHADER;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; LIGHTING; MOBILE DEVICES; PIXELS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 56849126067     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2004525     Document Type: Article

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