Mathematical Accelerator for Artificial Intelligence Applications

    公开(公告)号:US20200225913A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-16

    申请号:US16731527

    申请日:2019-12-31

    Applicant: MediaTek Inc.

    Abstract: A system includes an accelerator to accelerate the computations of nonlinear math functions. The accelerator includes a set of first evaluators and a set of second evaluators. Each of the first evaluators and the second evaluators is a fixed-function hardware circuit specialized for evaluating a respective nonlinear function. The system further includes a processor which decodes a math instruction in an instruction set, sends to the accelerator a signal identifying a nonlinear function corresponding to the math instruction, and receives an output of the nonlinear function from the accelerator. According to the signal, the accelerator evaluates the nonlinear function using one of the first evaluators. When the signal identifies the nonlinear function as a composite function, the accelerator additionally uses one of second evaluators on an output of the one first evaluator.

    Indirect illumination method and 3D graphics processing device

    公开(公告)号:US20170323474A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-09

    申请号:US15588723

    申请日:2017-05-08

    CPC classification number: G06T15/506 G06T19/006

    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of indirect illumination, for a 3D graphics processing device, including obtaining a scene and perform a voxelization to the scene; performing a lighting computation to the voxelized scene from a plurality of light sources, and store a potential lighting driven voxel (pLDV) list according to the lighting computation; sorting the pLDV list to generate a sorted pLDV list; and performing a compaction process to the sorted pLDV list; wherein each voxel in the pLDV list stores a reflective radiance and a Morton code corresponding to each voxel.

    Mathematical accelerator for artificial intelligence applications

    公开(公告)号:US11144282B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-12

    申请号:US16731527

    申请日:2019-12-31

    Applicant: MediaTek Inc.

    Abstract: A system includes an accelerator to accelerate the computations of nonlinear math functions. The accelerator includes a set of first evaluators and a set of second evaluators. Each of the first evaluators and the second evaluators is a fixed-function hardware circuit specialized for evaluating a respective nonlinear function. The system further includes a processor which decodes a math instruction in an instruction set, sends to the accelerator a signal identifying a nonlinear function corresponding to the math instruction, and receives an output of the nonlinear function from the accelerator. According to the signal, the accelerator evaluates the nonlinear function using one of the first evaluators. When the signal identifies the nonlinear function as a composite function, the accelerator additionally uses one of second evaluators on an output of the one first evaluator.

    Indirect illumination method and 3D graphics processing device

    公开(公告)号:US10275937B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-30

    申请号:US15588723

    申请日:2017-05-08

    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of indirect illumination, for a 3D graphics processing device, including obtaining a scene and perform a voxelization to the scene; performing a lighting computation to the voxelized scene from a plurality of light sources, and store a potential lighting driven voxel (pLDV) list according to the lighting computation; sorting the pLDV list to generate a sorted pLDV list; and performing a compaction process to the sorted pLDV list; wherein each voxel in the pLDV list stores a reflective radiance and a Morton code corresponding to each voxel.

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