ColdFlux superconducting EDA and TCAD tools project: Overview and progress

CJ Fourie, K Jackman, MM Botha… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The IARPA SuperTools program requires the development of superconducting electronic
design automation (S-EDA) and superconducting technology computer-aided design (S …

Defensive dropout for hardening deep neural networks under adversarial attacks

S Wang, X Wang, P Zhao, W Wen… - 2018 IEEE/ACM …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known vulnerable to adversarial attacks. That is,
adversarial examples, obtained by adding delicately crafted distortions onto original legal …

Splitter trees in single flux quantum circuits

T Jabbari, G Krylov, J Kawa… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing complexity of modern rapid single flux quantum (RSFQ) circuits has made
the issue of multiple fanout of growing importance. Most RSFQ gates can only drive a single …

Repeater insertion in SFQ interconnect

T Jabbari, G Krylov, S Whiteley, J Kawa… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Superconductive passive transmission lines (PTL) are widely used for signal routing in large-
scale rapid single flux quantum (RSFQ) circuits. Due to the imperfect matching of the …

H-tree clock synthesis in RSFQ circuits

T Jabbari, EG Friedma, J Kawa - 2020 17th Biennial Baltic …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rapid single flux quantum (RSFQ) technology promises high performance, energy efficient
supercomputers to achieve DoE exascale computing. An important challenge in VLSI …

Algebraic and Boolean optimization methods for AQFP superconducting circuits

E Testa, SY Lee, H Riener, G De Micheli - … of the 26th Asia and South …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron (AQFP) circuits are a family of superconducting
electronic (SCE) circuits that have recently gained growing interest due to their low-energy …

Advances in quantum computation and quantum technologies: A design automation perspective

G De Micheli, JHR Jiang, R Rand… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Universal and fault-tolerant quantum computation is a promising new paradigm that may
efficiently conquer difficult computation tasks beyond the reach of classical computation. It …

Design of a power efficient artificial neuron using superconducting nanowires

E Toomey, K Segall, KK Berggren - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
With the rising societal demand for more information-processing capacity with lower power
consumption, alternative architectures inspired by the parallelism and robustness of the …

Observation of fractional vortices and π phases in Josephson junctions involving periodic magnetic layers

IP Nevirkovets - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Characteristics of SN (F/N) n IN (F/N) m S Josephson junctions with n, m= 1 to 3 are
reported. Here, S is a superconductor (Nb), F is a magnetic material (nickel), N is a …

An efficient pipelined architecture for superconducting single flux quantum logic circuits utilizing dual clocks

G Pasandi, M Pedram - IEEE Transactions on Applied …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In standard single flux quantum (SFQ) logic circuits, it is required to insert path balancing D-
flip-flops (DFFs) to guarantee correct circuit operation. DFF insertion should be done in a …