DATA ALIGNMENT SYSTEM FOR A HARDWARE ACCELERATED COMMAND INTERPRETER ENGINE

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.