AMC: An Asynchronous Memory Compiler

The lack of electronic design automation (EDA) tools for asynchronous circuits makes it challenging to design asynchronous systems that have high complexity. This restriction also makes it almost impossible to prototype and compare new asynchronous designs with their clocked counterparts. The availability of high quality EDA tools would significantly bolster research in asynchronous design, and potentially lead to their adoption in certain application domains. This paper presents AMC: an open-source asynchronous pipelined memory compiler. AMC generates SRAM modules with a bundled-data datapath and quasi-delay-insensitive control. AMC is a flexible, user-modifiable and technology-independent memory compiler that generates fabricable SRAM blocks in a broad range of sizes, configurations and process nodes. AMC also produces memory designs that are competitive with both asynchronous and synchronous memories in the literature. AMC aims to reduce design turn-around time and amplify the research in the asynchronous design community.