摘要 |
An apparatus and method for controlling an asynchronous First-In-First-Out (FIFO) memory. The asynchronous FIFO has separate, free running read and write clocks. A number of n-bit circular Gray code counters are used to handshake the operation between read and write parts of the FIFO, wherein n is any integer more than one. Additional binary counters are used to accumulate the read and write overflows for the circular Gray code counters. When any circular Gray code counter is overflow, the read or write count is transferred to the respective binary counter for recording the FIFO accesses. |