Precision selection for energy-efficient pixel shaders

Proceedings - HPG 2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on High Performance Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 159-168

  Pool, Jeff ^a   Lastray, Anselmo ^a   Singhz, Montek ^a  

^a CB 3175 Sitterson Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL DATA VALUES; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CLOSED-LOOP; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ERROR BOUND; PIXEL SHADER; RUN-TIME INFORMATION; STATIC AND DYNAMIC APPROACH;

ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PIXELS; STATIC ANALYSIS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 80052485046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2018323.2018349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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