Abstract

Living on the verge of the IoT era, the entire world is excited about the potential of mining the monumental amounts of data that would become available in the near future. However, this increasing abundance of data requires supercomputers faster and more powerful than were ever built without the need to build a nuclear plant next to each one! Single flux quantum (SFQ) technology has the potential to meet those booming demands for lower power consumption and higher operation speeds in the electronics industry and future exascale supercomputing systems. Nevertheless, the promised benefits of three orders of magnitude lower power at an order of magnitude higher performance have yet to be attained. In particular, variability and scalability have been long-term obstacles for the technology to advance, compete, and replace the well-founded Silicon CMOS. Notwithstanding that SFQ fabrication has quite …

Date

2018

Authors

Ramy N Tadros, Peter A Beerel

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volume

28

Issue

7

Pages

1-11

Publisher

IEEE