Software in silicon: the methodology behind Sun's GX graphics accelerator architecture

The Sun GX graphics engine uses the host CPU as the main controller and has all its graphics functionality hardwired directly into two large ASICs; the FBC (frame buffer controller) and TEC (transformation engine and cursor). The GX has only three instructions: rendering arbitrary, filled quadrilate...

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