Architectural and implementation challenges in designing high-performance RSFQ processors: A FLUX-1 microprocessor and beyond

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 446-449

  Dorojevets, Mikhail ^a   Bunyk, Paul ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Low temperature superconductors; Microprocessor design; Petaflops computing; RSFQ logic

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DELAY CIRCUITS; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; FREQUENCIES; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY;

PETAFLOPS COMPUTING;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 0042476471     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.813893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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