Can you help me please?

[Urian]

I need to know if any of these patents was used or not in any ATI GPU architecture from 2003 to 2005.

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=4&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=%28%22Demers%2C+Eric%22.IN.%29&OS=IN/"Demers,+Eric"&RS=IN/"Demers,+Eric"

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=5&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=%28%22Demers%2C+Eric%22.IN.%29&OS=IN/"Demers,+Eric"&RS=IN/"Demers,+Eric"


Thanks.

 

[Urian]

I see that it wasn´t used.

 

[trinibwoy]

The second one sounds very Crossfirish (new word!)

 

[PeterAce]

The second one sounds very Crossfirish (new word!)

I'd say at the start it sounds quite like like the normal tiling mechnisam used since the R300, but reading further it does switch terms to imply seperate processors and there for it does sound like the super-tiling and AFR modes used in Crossfire.

 

[hoom]

I thought supertiling was part of the r300?
Had support for up to 256 r300s in big expensive boxes for stuff like commercial/military flight simulators.

 

[trinibwoy]

IIRC that was called just tiling. The super-tiling nomenclature came about with Crossfire but of course there's a very good chance I'm wrong :smile:

 

[Temporary Name]

The second one sounds very Crossfirish (new word!)

"Crossfiery", surely!

 

[Dave Baumann]

Bear in mind that these were also designed to be in Visulazation rendering systems and multi-chip (4/16/32/etc.) configurations were available from E&S and SGI long before Crossfire.