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    Hi, I am compiling a survey on architecture support for advanced
    visually-oriented applications

    Some aspects of this survey are the following:

    1. Support for graphics function in general-purpose processors.
    2. Sp. purpose coprocessors that offload work from main processors.
    3. Design choices in actual workstation systems ranging from Xterminals
       to advanced modeling/visualization engines.

    Some related areas include design of laser-printer engines / Postscript
    interpretors.

    Some of the microarchitecture issues are:
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    1. Techniques for optimizing frame-buffer access.
        > Sp. cache instructions, e.g., allocate-no-fetch as in 88110.
        > Small frame-buffer write-back cache with 1/60 sec flushing.
        > Tiling organization of frame-buffer for exploiting access locality.
    2. Support for saturating arithmetic.
    3. Packed pixel arithmetic.
    4. Support for single-cyle x,y addressing.
    5. TLB support for different page sizes.
    6. Support for the special requirements posed by applications such as
        > MPEG
        > Display Postscript
        > 3-D graphics and viewing transforms
        > Gouraud/Phong shading
        > Real-time video processing
        > Speech recognition

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Aloke Gupta                                         E-mail: gupta@crhc.uiuc.edu
Coordinated Science Laboratory                           or a-gupta@uiuc.edu
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign