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2009-10-20 13:50
Design of SFQ Floating-Point Units Using Nb Advanced Process Toshiki Kainuma, Yasuhiro Shimamura, Fumishige Miyaoka, Yuki Yamanashi, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa (Yokohama Nat. Univ.), Akira Fujimaki, Naofumi Takagi, Kazuyoshi Takagi (Nagoya Univ.) SCE2009-19 Link to ES Tech. Rep. Archives: SCE2009-19 |
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We are developing a large-scale reconfigurable data-path (LSRDP) based on the single-flux-quantum (SFQ) circuits, which will be a fundamental technology for future petaflops-scale computing systems. The LSRDP is composed of a large number of floating-point units (FPUs) each of which is connected by reconfigurable routing networks. In the LSRDP, reputation loops in the source program are directly mapped to the LSRDP. The main advantage of the LSRDP is the reduction of the memory wall problem in the high-performance computing system. A memory access rate is considerably reduced, because the data are directly transferred between FPUs in the LSRDP without memory accesses.
Recently, the ISTEC Nb 10 kA/cm2 advanced process (ADP), which realizes SFQ circuits with two times faster operating speed than that of the conventional fabrication process has been developed. The final goal of the SFQ processor project with the LSRDP is to demonstrate a 50 GHz high-speed operation of SFQ LSRDP Systems. In this paper, we will show the design of component circuits of SFQ floating-point adders and multipliers using the ADP cell library. |
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SFQ Circuit / Nb process / Floating-point unit / Floating-point adder / Floating-point multiplier / Reconfigurable data-path / / |
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IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 109, no. 236, SCE2009-19, pp. 13-18, Oct. 2009. |
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SCE2009-19 |
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2009-10-13 (SCE) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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