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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bahareh Ghaffari, Denver, CO (US);
Assignee:
Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710-5 ; 710 33 ; 710 54 ; 710 65 ; 711201 ;
Abstract
A hardware accelerated data alignment system in a hardware accelerated I/O data processing engine that gathers and maintains pointers to a set of widely distributed source and/or destination data locations. Non-aligned input data and output data from source and/or destination data locations are transparently input and output as contiguous streams of data in a zero wait-state manner according to data byte and/or data block boundaries dictated by the data processing engine regardless of the number of source data blocks and/or destination data blocks and the absence of any previously existing data byte and/or data block alignment.