Product specifications

VT8601A Apollo PLE133
Revision 1.82 October 22, 2001 -131 3D Graphics Engine Registers
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Texture Engine Registers
The texture Engine handles texture access and filtering. It is
controlled by the Span Engine. It accepts texture coordinates
from the Rasterization Engine, generates and passes addresses
to the Memory Interface, accepts raw texel data from the
Memory Interface, does filtering, and passes the results to the
Data Path.
GEbase + A0 – Texture Control .......................................RW
Textures are aligned to 64-bit boundaries on a scanline basis.
31 Texture Access Control
0 Disable (use cache)
1 Enable (bypass cache)
30 Filtering Control
0 Filter with color key. Treat alpha value for
keyed texels as 0
1 Downgrade filtering function based on
fractional bits of UV and key test result. Set
alpha to 0 for keyed texels.
29-28 Texture U Boundary Checking Function
00 Texture U wraparound
01 Texture U mirroring
10 Texture U clamping
11 -reserved-
27-26 Texture V Boundary
00 Texture V wraparound
01 Texture V mirroring
10 Texture V clamping
11 -reserved-
25 Texture in System Memory
0 Texture is stored in graphics memory
1 Texture is stored in system memory
24 Reserved (must be 0)
23 MipMap
0 Disable
1 Enable
22 Intra-map Filter
0 Disable
1 Enable (do filtering inside a LOD level)
21 Inter-map Filter
0 Disable
1 Enable (do filtering inside a LOD level)
M must be 1.
20 Magnify Filter (when LOD < 0)
0 Point Sample
1 Bi-linear
19 Tiling
0 Texture is not tiled
1 Texture is tiled.
Tile size is determined by texel depth:
Texel Depth (bpp)
Tile Size
1 16 x 16
2 8 x 16
4 8 x 8
8 4 x 8
16 4 x 4
32 2 x 4
Inside each tile, texels are organized into 2x2
subtiles in row major
18 Texture Color Key
0 Disable
1 Enable
17 Texture Anisotropy
0 Disable
1 Enable
16-15 Palette Data Format
00 565 RGB
01 1555 ARGB
10 4444 ARGB
11 -reserved-
14-12 Texel Depth
000 1-bpp palettized
001 2-bpp palettized
010 4-bpp palettized
011 8-bpp palettized
100 16-bpp 565 RGB
101 16-bpp 1555 ARGB
110 16-bpp 4444 ARGB
111 32-bpp ARGB
11-8 Texture Map Levels (TML) (Range 0-8)
The number of maps in the MipMap (0 = 1 map)
7-4 Y-Axis Texture Memory Size (TRY) (Range 0-8)
This field determines the number of lsb’s (2**TRY)
of parameter V to be used in the Y axis. Any bit
higher than this will be ignored (wraparound).
3-0 X-Axis Texture Memory Size (TRX) (Range 0-8)
This field determines the number of lsb’s (2**TRX)
of parameter U to be used in the X axis. Any bit
higher than this will be ignored (wraparound).
Note: For MipMap textures, TRX/TRY is the size of the
original texture (1:1 map)