A study for an improved design of front-end circuit of superconducting analog-to-digital converter

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART I, 2005, Pages 445-448

  Furuta, Futoshi ^a   Saitoh, Kazuo ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analog to digital converter; Demultiplexer; Front end circuit; Single flux quantum

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; DEMULTIPLEXING; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MODULATORS; SHIFT REGISTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SYNCHRONIZATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ANALOG SIGNALS; DEMULTIPLEXERS; FRONT-END CIRCUITS; SINGLE FLUX QUANTUM (SFQ);

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 22044434992     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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