The present invention renders an image to an image plane (28) in a memory (40) where the image is made up of a plurality of overlapping display elements included in a display list (24). The display elements in the display list (24) are used to define an overlay graph (32) which defines a first display element as a d...

A circuit for ensuring stabilized configuration information upon power-up is disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a configuration information stored in a number of nonvolatile storage elements (fuse bits (16)). A configuration power-on reset circuit (10) generates a signal for latching the c...

A method of initializing a CPU (14) to run emulation code from a debugger (11) Emulation logic (13)associated with the CPU (14) has a finite state machine (13b) v/ith three modes: a reset mode in which no requests from said debugger or said CPU are serviced, a normal mode in which requests from said debugger are gi...

A Method of performing color space conversion and undercolor removal.Pixelated data first resampled(102) to an efficient word size-typically 8-bits wide.The RGB color format data words are then subtracted from a maximum inteensity to yield CMY color format data words. The minimum value of the three intensity words f...

A method and system for efficient buffer rendering. An object mask, typically a character font mask, is aligned with a memory tiling arrangement (1102). A tile map is generated (1104) to indicate active tiles. An active tile is seiectedU buffer corresponding to the active tile is transferred (1108) from a first m...

A voltage regulator circuit (100), coupled between a high power supply voltage (VCC) and a lower power supply voltage (VSS), provides a regulated voltage (XDD) that is greater than the high power supply voltage(VCC). The voltage regulator circuit (100) includes a temperature compensating detect circuit (102) which a...

The invention relates to a polling circuit for configuiring electronic memory devices. An electronic-circuit for realiable bond pad polling during power-up and intialization. The electronic circuit will also provide for proper initialising the mode configuaration by way of a polling option pad for integrated circuit...

This invention cures many inefficiencies with known scan conversion methods. This invention employs a edge array rather than a set linked list from an array of pointers equal in number to the number of scan lines. This invention thus eliminates storage of linked list pointers which in the prior art included many nul...