IEICE Transactions on Electronics
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Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametron With Delay-Line Clocking Using Square Excitation Currents
Taiki YAMAENaoki TAKEUCHINobuyuki YOSHIKAWA
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The adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron (AQFP) is an energy-efficient superconductor logic device. In a previous study, we proposed a low-latency clocking scheme called delay-line clocking, and several low-latency AQFP logic gates have been demonstrated. In delay-line clocking, the latency between adjacent excitation phases is determined by the propagation delay of excitation currents, and thus the rising time of excitation currents should be sufficiently small; otherwise, an AQFP gate can switch before the previous gate is fully excited. This means that delay-line clocking needs high clock frequencies, because typical excitation currents are sinusoidal and the rising time depends on the frequency. However, AQFP circuits need to be tested in a wide frequency range experimentally. Hence, in the present study, we investigate AQFP circuits adopting delay-line clocking with square excitation currents to apply delay-line clocking in a low frequency range. Square excitation currents have shorter rising time than sinusoidal excitation currents and thus enable low frequency operation. We demonstrate an AQFP buffer chain with delay-line clocking using square excitation currents, in which the latency is approximately 20 ps per gate, and confirm that the operating margin for the buffer chain is kept sufficiently wide at clock frequencies below 1 GHz, whereas in the sinusoidal case the operating margin shrinks below 500 MHz. These results indicate that AQFP circuits adopting delay-line clocking can operate in a low frequency range by using square excitation currents.

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