Intel i5-2510E FF8062700853304 User Manual

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This BLT engine accelerates the GUI of Microsoft Windows* operating systems. The 

128-bit BLT engine provides hardware acceleration of block transfers of pixel data for 

many common Windows operations. The BLT engine can be used for the following:

• Move rectangular blocks of data between memory locations
• Data alignment 
• To perform logical operations (raster ops)

The rectangular block of data does not change, as it is transferred between memory 

locations. The allowable memory transfers are between: cacheable system memory 

and frame buffer memory, frame buffer memory and frame buffer memory, and within 

system memory. Data to be transferred can consist of regions of memory, patterns, or 

solid color fills. A pattern is always 8 x 8 pixels wide and may be 8, 16, or 32 bits per 

pixel.

The BLT engine expands monochrome data into a color depth of 8, 16, or 32 bits. BLTs 

can be either opaque or transparent. Opaque transfers move the data specified to the 

destination. Transparent transfers compare destination color to source color and write 

according to the mode of transparency selected.

Data is horizontally and vertically aligned at the destination. If the destination for the 

BLT overlaps with the source memory location, the BLT engine specifies which area in 

memory to begin the BLT transfer. Hardware is included for all 256 raster operations 

(source, pattern, and destination) defined by Microsoft, including transparent BLT.

The BLT engine has instructions to invoke BLT and stretch BLT operations, permitting 

software to set up instruction buffers and use batch processing. The BLT engine can 

perform hardware clipping during BLTs.

The integrated graphics controller display pipe can be broken down into three 

components: 

• Display  Planes
• Display Pipes
• Embedded DisplayPort* and Intel FDI

Plane A

Cursor B

Sprite B

Plane B

Cursor A

Sprite A

Pipe B

Pipe A

Alpha 

Blend/ 

Gamma/

Panel 

Fitter

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X

eDP

Intel® 

FDI

VGA