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Applications of Small-Scale Reconfigurability to Graphics Processors

Author(s) -

Kevin Dale,

Jeremy W. Sheaffer,

Vinu Vijay Kumar,

David Luebke,

Greg Humphreys,

Kevin Skadron

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

lecture notes in computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Book series

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249

H-Index - 400

eISSN - 1611-3349

pISSN - 0302-9743

DOI - 10.1007/11802839_14

Subject(s) - reconfigurability , computer science , shader , graphics , computer architecture , computation , scale (ratio) , computer hardware , parallel computing , computer graphics (images) , embedded system , operating system , programming language , physics , quantum mechanics

We explore the application of Small-Scale Reconfigurability (SSR) to graphics hardware. SSR is an architectural technique wherein functionality common to multiple subunits is reused rather than repli- cated, yielding high-performance reconfigurable hardware with reduced area requirements. We show that SSR can be used effectively in pro- grammable graphics architectures to allow double-precision computation without affecting the performance of single-precision calculations and to increase fragment shader performance with a minimal impact on chip area.

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