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Measurement and data-assisted simulation of bit error rate in RQL circuits

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SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 35, Issue 2, Pages -

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IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6668/ac45a1

Keywords

digital; bit error rate; SFQ

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A circuit-simulation-based method is used to predict the thermally-induced bit error rate of superconducting Single Flux Quantum logic circuits. The method evaluates the effective noise bandwidth and reveals that the actual bit error rate is lower than simplistic estimates based on isolated devices.
A circuit-simulation-based method is used to determine the thermally-induced bit error rate of superconducting Single Flux Quantum logic circuits. Simulations are used to evaluate the multidimensional Gaussian integral across noise current sources attached to the active devices. The method is data-assisted and has predictive power. Measurement determines the value of a single parameter, effective noise bandwidth, for each error mechanism. The errors in the distributed networks of comparator-free Reciprocal Quantum Logic nucleate across multiple Josephson junctions, so the effective critical current is about three times that of the individual devices. The effective noise bandwidth is only 6%-23% of the junction plasma frequency at a modest clock rate of 3.4 GHz, which is 1% of the plasma frequency. This analysis shows the ways measured bit error rate comes out so much lower than simplistic estimates based on isolated devices.

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