Multi-gigahertz performance of a superconducting analog-to-digital converter
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
This paper presents the progress the authors have made on their design, fabrication, and testing of a fully parallel superconducting analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with multi-gigahertz clock frequencies and input bandwidth. To their best knowledge, this converter is the first flash-type analog-to-digital converter ever reported in Josephson technology that fully integrates a quantizer and a thermometer-to-binary encoder to achieve binary outputs. In this design, the quantizer consists of 2{sup N}-1 comparators, each of which is realized using a hysteretic one-junction sampling SQUID driving a two-junction readout SQUID. A new logic family has been designed based on the same comparator building block and has been used to implement the thermometer-to-binary encoder. Taking advantage of the fact that the encoder`s input is thermometer-coded, They have designed three-input and four-input quasi-XOR gates with only three NAND gates and therefore reduced significantly the total gate count. Functionalities of all the sub-circuits have been verified experimentally at clock frequencies up to 3 GHz, which is limited by their currently available testing equipment.
- OSTI ID:
- 64700
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940142--; ISBN 0-8194-1455-7
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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