Ballistic SFQ signal propagation on-chip and chip-to-chip

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 463-466

  Herr, Quentin P ^a   Wire, Michael S ^a   Smith, Andrew D ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Multichip; RSFQ

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MICROSTRIP LINES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; QUANTUM THEORY;

SIGNAL PROPAGATION;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0041440029     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.813901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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