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AMC: Asynchronous Memory Compiler

AMC : An Asynchronous Memory (SRAM) Compiler.

AMC is an open-source asynchronous pipelined memory compiler. AMC generates SRAM modules with a bundled-data datapath and quasi-delay-insensitive control. AMC is a Python-base, flexible, user-modifiable and technology-independent memory compiler that generates fabricable SRAM blocks in a broad range of sizes, configurations and process nodes.

The description of the circuits AMC generates and the compiler can be found in the following paper:

• Samira Ataei and Rajit Manohar. AMC: An Asynchronous Memory Compiler. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC), May 2019.

AMC generates GDSII layout data, standard SPICE netlists, Verilog models, DRC/LVS verification reports, timing and power models (.lib), and placement and routing models (.lef).

More detailed documentation is available here: http://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/act/doku.php?id=amc:start

Copyright Notice

AMC is licensed under GNU General Public License v2.0. AMC project originated from the OpenRAM code (https://github.com/VLSIDA/OpenRAM) version 7b5791b from May 9, 2018, developed by Matthew Guthaus from UC Santa Cruz VLSIDA group as the lead architect and also contributed to by Samira Ataei. AMC developers have made a large number of changes that have to do with changing the memory interface circuits, supporting modern design rules and thin-cell SRAM layout, new partitioning and floorplanning, and different timing and characterization methodology. The organization of the code base mirrors the OpenRAM version 7b5791b. As OpenRAM is under BSD 3-Clause License, portions of code that are derived from OpenRAM remain under BSD license.