US Patent 7296108 Apparatus and method for efficient transmission of unaligned data

An apparatus and method to transmit unaligned data over an interface bus while providing the appearance of aligned data transfers to the receiving processor. In a preferred embodiment, an alignment mechanism is provided in the bus interface of the receiving processor to align the data transfers transparent to the receiving processor. The alignment mechanism detects an unaligned transfer in the bus command queue and forms multiple commands of aligned data to send to the processor.