Small-Scale Reconfigurability for Improved Performance and Double-Precision in Graphics Hardware
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We explore the application of Small-Scale Reconfigurability (SSR) to graphics hardware. SSR is an architectural technique wherein functionality common to multiple subunits is reused rather than replicated, yielding high-performance reconfigurable hardware with reduced area requirements (Vijay Kumar and Lach 2003). We show that SSR can be used effectively in programmable graphics architectures to allow double-precision computation without affecting the performance of singleprecision calculations and to increase fragment shader performance with a minimal impact on chip area.
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