Methods, systems, and devices for performing an acceleration process by offloading an operation. The system includes a hardware offloading engine that includes a hardware accelerator for performing the acceleration process. The hardware accelerator has a processor configured to receive a hardware offloading command, the hardware offloading command including an operation code, an input pointer, and an output pointer, in which at least one of the input pointer or the output pointer includes a unified data pointer that includes one or more bits of memory for identifying the source location for the input data or the destination location of the output data, parse the operation code, the input pointer, and the output pointer from the hardware offloading command, retrieve the input data based on the input pointer, and execute an offloaded operation on the input data based on the operation code.