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Fourth International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC '98)
Asynchronous Circuits and Systems in Superconducting RSFQ Digital Technology
San Diego, CA
March 30-April 02
ISBN: 0-8186-8392-9
Z. John Deng, Nobuyoki Yoshikawa
Steve R. Whiteley, Nobuyoki Yoshikawa
Theodore Van Duzer, Nobuyoki Yoshikawa
Jose A. Tierno, IBM - T. J. Watson Research Center
Superconductive Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic and memory, in which ones and zeros are represented by the presence or absence within a timing window of a quantized picosecond voltage pulse(corresponding to one SFQ), can be integrated into a digital computing system with an operating rate of several tens of GHz, based on theogy. It is the most promising technology beyond semiconductor transistors for low-power high-end computation. However, as the operating speed of circuits and systems increase, timing uncertainty from fabrication process variations makes global synchronization very hard. In this paper, we present a globally asynchronous, locally synchronous timing methodology for RSFQ digital design, which can solve the global synchronization problem. We also demonstrate the recent experimental results of some asynchronous circuits and systems implemented in RSFQ technology. Several key components such as a self-timed shift register, a self-timed demultiplexor, a Muller-C element, a completion detector, and a clock generator have been designed and tested. High speed operation has been confirmed up to 20 Gb/s for a prototype data buffer system, which consists two self-timed shift registers and an on-chip 5-38 GHz clock generator.
Citation:
Z. John Deng, Steve R. Whiteley, Theodore Van Duzer, Jose A. Tierno, "Asynchronous Circuits and Systems in Superconducting RSFQ Digital Technology," async, pp.0274, Fourth International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC '98), 1998
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