A system for transferring a plurality of data items (bytes) between a source device and a destination device. The system loads data items from the source device into a register so as to align the data items with the storage locations of the destination device, transfers the aligned data items to the...http://www.google.de/patents/US5170477?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5170477 - Odd boundary address aligned direct memory acess device and method
