eprintid: 13333
rev_number: 21
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datestamp: 2012-11-28 08:24:37
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creators_name: Novoa Suñer, Emilio
creators_name: Ituero Herrero, Pablo
creators_name: López Vallejo, Marisa
title: Area-delay Trade-offs of Texture Decompressors for a Graphics Processing Unit
ispublished: pub
subjects: telecomunicaciones
subjects: electronica
abstract: 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 different texture decompression algorithms for both conventional (PCs and video game consoles) and mobile platforms. Circuit synthesis is performed targeting both a reconfigurable hardware platform and a 90nm standard cell library. Area-delay trade-offs 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.
date: 2011
date_type: published
publisher: SPIE
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
volume: 8067
pagerange: 1-8
event_title: Microtechnologies For The New Millennium 2011 (SPIE 2011)
event_location: Praga, República Checa
event_dates: 18/04/2011 - 20/04/2011
event_type: conference
institution: Telecomunicacion
department: Ingenieria_Electronica
refereed: TRUE
book_title: Proceedings of Microtechnologies For The New Millennium 2011 (SPIE 2011)
rights: by-nc-nd
citation:   Novoa Suñer, Emilio and Ituero Herrero, Pablo and López Vallejo, Marisa  (2011).  Area-delay Trade-offs of Texture Decompressors for a Graphics Processing Unit.  In: "Microtechnologies For The New Millennium 2011 (SPIE 2011)", 18/04/2011 - 20/04/2011, Praga, República Checa. pp. 1-8.    
document_url: https://oa.upm.es/13333/2/INVE_MEM_2011_111879.pdf