TY  - CONF
AV  - public
Y1  - 2011///
A1  - Novoa Suñer, Emilio
A1  - Ituero Herrero, Pablo
A1  - López Vallejo, Marisa
M2  - Praga, República Checa
PB  - SPIE
N2  - Graphics Processing Units have become a booster for the microelectronics industry. However, due to intellectual property issues, there is a serious lack of information on implementation details of the hardware architecture that is behind GPUs. For instance, the way texture is handled and decompressed in a GPU to reduce bandwidth usage has never been dealt with in depth from a hardware point of view. This work addresses a comparative study on the hardware implementation of di?erent texture decompression algorithms for both conventional (PCs and video game consoles) and mobile platforms. Circuit synthesis is performed targeting both a recon?gurable hardware platform and a 90nm standard cell library. Area-delay trade-o?s have been extensively analyzed, which allows us to compare the complexity of decompressors and thus determine suitability of algorithms for systems with limited hardware resources.
TI  - Area-delay Trade-offs of Texture Decompressors for a Graphics Processing Unit
ID  - upm13333
VL  - 8067
T2  - Microtechnologies For The New Millennium 2011 (SPIE 2011)
UR  - https://oa.upm.es/13333/
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
ER  -