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2017-08-09 14:35
Design of Component Circuits for Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum Gate-Level-Pipelined Microprocessors Yuki Hatanaka, Yuichi Matsui, Masamitsu Tanaka, Kyosuke Sano, Akira Fujimaki (Nagoya Univ.), Koki Ishida, Takatsugu Ono, Koji Inoue (Kyushu Univ.) SCE2017-17 Link to ES Tech. Rep. Archives: SCE2017-17 |
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We have started development of high-throughput rapid single-flux-quantum (RSFQ) microprocessors with the aim of higher performance than CMOS microprocessors. The throughput performance was limited in bit-serial processing, which was employed in the RSFQ microprocessors demonstrated so far. We can expect significant improvement in performance independently from word lengths by introducing bit-parallel processing and gate-level-pipelined structure, in which pipeline processing is formed by logic gate. In this study, we aimed to prove the feasibility of bit-parallel RSFQ microprocessors, by evaluating high-frequency operation of datapath, which is the largest, most challenging component in timing design. The high-speed tests of an adder and register file, which compose the datapath, showed bias margins of 25% at the target frequency, 30 GHz. We also designed detailed datapath, and obtained the comparable bias margin at 30 GHz by logic simulation. However, the result revealed the unstable operation at lower bias region, and indicates that we need review of timing design. |
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RSFQ circuit / Microprocessor / Gate-level-pipeline / Bit-parallel processing / / / / |
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IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 117, no. 171, SCE2017-17, pp. 37-42, Aug. 2017. |
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SCE2017-17 |
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2017-08-02 (SCE) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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