{"title":"Hardware Outline Character Rasterization","authors":"Marc Morgan, R. Hersch","doi":"10.2312/EGGH/EGGH91/103-115","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design and implementation of an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for real-time rasterization of characters described by their outline based on vertical scan-conversion and flag full algorithms. The chip acts as a coprocessor which rasterizes outline fonts given by Bezier splines and straight line segments. It generates high quality fonts at a rate 30 times higher than the equivalent assembly language code on a 16 MHz M68020.","PeriodicalId":206166,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2312/EGGH/EGGH91/103-115","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper presents the design and implementation of an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for real-time rasterization of characters described by their outline based on vertical scan-conversion and flag full algorithms. The chip acts as a coprocessor which rasterizes outline fonts given by Bezier splines and straight line segments. It generates high quality fonts at a rate 30 times higher than the equivalent assembly language code on a 16 MHz M68020.