  We give a definition of asymmetric universal entangling machine which
entangles a system in an unknown state to a specially prepared ancilla. The
machine produces a fixed state-independent amount of entanglement in exchange
to a fixed degradation of the system state fidelity. We describe explicitly
such a machine for any quantum system having $d$ levels and prove its
optimality. We show that a $d^2$-dimensional ancilla is sufficient for reaching
optimality. The introduced machine is a generalization to a number of widely
investigated universal quantum devices such as the symmetric and asymmetric
quantum cloners, the symmetric quantum entangler, the quantum information
distributor and the universal-NOT gate.
