Abstract
Graphics operations require quite high data bandwidth and processor performance. As display sizes have increased, it has become more and more necessary to unload graphic operations from the CPU to a coprocessor. A GPU is a dedicated processor which is instructed by the main CPU to perform those graphics operations which would otherwise have been performed on the main CPU.
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Abbreviations
- BitBlt:
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Memory to Memory Graphic Block Transfer
- CPU:
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Controlling Processing Unit
- CRT:
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Cathode Ray Tube
- GPU:
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Graphic Processing Unit
- QVGA:
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Display Resolution, 320 × 240 Pixel
- ITU656/601:
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Interlaced Video Standard
- NTSC:
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Analogue Television Standard
- OpenGL:
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Open Graphic Library
- OpenVG:
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Open Vector Graphics Acceleration
- OpenCL:
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Open Computing Language
- PAL:
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Analogue Television Standard, 625 Lines, 50 Hz
- RGB888:
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Digital Pixel Format, 24/32 Bit per Pixel
- SMPTE:
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Digital HD Video Standard
- SOC:
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System on Chip
- VBO:
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Vertex Buffer Objects
- VGA:
-
Display Resolution, 640 × 480 Pixel
- XGA:
-
Display Resolution, 1024 × 768 Pixel
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Akenine-Möller T, Haines E, Hoffman N (2008) Real-time rendering, 3rd edn. A K Peters/CRC Press, Natick/Boca Raton
Encarnação J, Straßer W, Klein R (1996) Graphische datenverarbeitung I. R Oldenbourg Verlag, München
Rogers DF (1997) Procedural elements for computer graphics, 2nd edn. McGraw-Hill, USA
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Grimm, A. (2012). Graphics Controllers. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79567-4_39
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