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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2008
Applicants:
Anitha Kona, Austin, TX (US);
Moinul H. Khan, Austin, TX (US);
Bradley C. Aldrich, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one or more embodiments, an apparatus comprises an alignment module implemented in hardware to identify requested data that is not aligned on a natural alignment boundary of a memory and load at least two sets of neighboring data such that each said set includes at least a portion of the requested data. The alignment module is further configured to extract the requested data from the at least two sets of neighboring data and output the extracted data to a processor.