Technology Issues on Superconducting Digital Communication Circuits and Systems

Shinichi YOROZU
Yoshihito HASHIMOTO
Shuichi TAHARA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E81-C    No.10    pp.1601-1607
Publication Date: 1998/10/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Low- and High-Temperature Superconductive Electron Devices and Their Applications)
Category: Digital Applications
Keyword: 
superconductor,  network,  pipeline,  ring,  communication,  

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Summary: 
We report the state of the art of superconducting network switching circuits and system technology. Mainly, we describe our switching core circuits and challenges to demonstrate superconducting prototype systems. And also, we review other approach to perform the superconducting digital communication briefly. In our switching core circuits, a ring-pipeline architecture has been proposed and the component circuits of the prototype chips have been fabricated and tested successfully. It is very important to demonstrate the prototype system in order to estimate the total performance of the system with superconducting devices. We have designed a multi-processor system with a superconducting network as a prototype system to demonstrate an interprocessor network system.