Playing the ".ac" card in noise analysis of RSFQ circuits

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 531-534

  Herr, Quentin P ^a   Johnson, Mark W ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRITICAL CURRENTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; THERMAL NOISE;

SHUNT RESISTANCES;

DIGITAL CIRCUITS;

EID: 0042943012     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.813926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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