A prototype implementation of OpenGL SC on a massively-parallel architecture

OpenGL SC (OpenGL for Safety Critical) is the safety critical variation of the widely-used OpenGL standard, and designed to meet the needs of safety critical markets for avionics, industrial, military, medical and automotive applications. We naturally need a cost-effective way of implementing OpenGL SC. For more flexibility on the graphics processing, we need a full-software 3D graphics pipeline implementation. From the programmer's point of view, this kind of software implementation is essential to access the internal features of the traditional graphics pipeline. Nowadays, the massively-parallel rasterization engines, which are based on the general-purpose GPU programming features, showed that those full software processing is possible. In this paper, we present a prototype implementation of OpenGL SC on a massively parallel architecture. We choose CUDA as the target parallel architecture. Our prototype implementation is verified by several demonstration programs. Verifications on the real-time systems will be followed. After fully verifying our implementation on the massively parallel architecture, we will make it commercially available.