Noise induced timing jitter: A general restriction for high speed RSFQ devices

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART I, 2005, Pages 344-347

  Ortlepp, Thomas ^a   Uhlmann, F Hermann ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bit error rate; Noise; Superconducting devices; Timing jitter

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; THERMAL NOISE; WHITE NOISE;

FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION (FPE); JOSEPHSON TRANSMISSION LINES; RAPID SINGLE FLUX QUANTUM (RFSQ); SWITCHING ERRORS;

TIMING JITTER;

EID: 22144483379     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849830     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (21)

1. P. Bunyk, K. Likharev, and D. Zinoviev, "RSFQ logic/memory family: A new technology: physics and devices," Int. J. High Speed Electron. Syst., vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 257-306, 2001.
2. A. Rylyakov and K. Likharev, "Pulse jitter and timing errors in RSFQ circuits," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 3539-3544, Jun. 1999.
3. Q. Herr and M. Feldman, "Error rate of RSFQ circuits: theory," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 2661-2664, Jun. 1997.
4. T. Ortlepp, H. Toepfer, and H. Uhlmann, "Minimization of noise-induced bit error rate in a high Tc superconducting dc/single flux quantum converter," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 78, no. 9, pp. 1279-1281, 2001.
5. J. Satchell, "Stochastic simulation of SFQ logic," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3315-3318, Jun. 1997.
6. H. Toepfer, T. Filippov, and F. Uhlmann, "Transient noise simulations of RSFQ cells," Appl. Supercond., vol. 6, no. 10-12, pp. 629-633, 1999.
7. c RSFQ comparator," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 72, no. 18, pp. 2328-2330, 1998.
8. P. Bunyk and D. Zinoviev, "Experimental characterization of bit error rate and pulse jitter in RSFQ circuits," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 529-532, Mar. 2001.
9. 2 based digital circuit," Supercond. Sci. Technol., vol. 14, pp. L37-L39, 2001.
10. A. Malakhov and A. Pankratov, "Influence of thermal fluctuations on time characteristics of a single Josephson element with high damping-Exace solution," Physica C, vol. 269, pp. 46-54, 1996.
11. V. Semenov, T. Filippov, Y. Polyakov, and K. Likharev, "SFQ balanced comparators at a finite sampling rate," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3617-3621, Jun. 1997.
12. 7-δ junctions," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3654-3657, Jun. 1997.
13. V. Kaplunenko, "Fluxon interaction in an overdamped Josephson transmission line," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 66, no. 24, pp. 3365-3367, 1995.
14. JeSEF Foundry for Superconducting Electronics at IPHT Jena Germany, RSFQ Design Rules. [Online]. Available: www.ipht-jena.de.
15. V. Kaplunenko and V. Borzenets, "Time jitter measurement in a circular Josephson transmission line," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 288-291, Mar. 2001.
16. P. Bunyk and P. Litskevitch, "Case study in RSFQ design: Fast pipelined parallel adder," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 3714-3720, Jun. 1999.
17. H. Terai, Z. Wang, Y. Hashimoto, S. Yorozu, A. Fujimaki, and N. Yoshikawa, "Timing jitter measurement of single-flux-quantum pulse in Josephson transmission line," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 84, no. 12, pp. 2133-2135, 2004.
18. S. Yorozu, Y. Kameda, H. Terai, A. Fujimaki, T. Yamada, and S. Tahara, "A single flux quantum standard logic cell library," Physica C, vol. 378-381, pp. 1471-1474, 2002.
19. H. Terai, private communication, via email, 2004.
20. D. Cassel, T. Ortlepp, R. Dittmann, B. Kuhlmann, A. Klushin, H. Toepfer, M. Siegel, and F. Uhlmann, "HTS technology for implementing RSFQ cells with large noise immunity," Physica C, vol. 372-376, pp. 139-142, 2002.
21. C. Mancini and M. Bocko, "Short-term frequency stability of clock generators for multigigahertz rapid-single-flux quantum digital circuits," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 25-37, Mar. 2003.