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Superconducting computing: present status and perspectives Nobuyuki Yoshikawa 1) Graduate School of Engineering 2) Institute of Advance Science Yokohama National University, Japan ISEC 2019 July 28 August 1, 2018, Riverside, CA IEEE CSC & ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition), September 2019. Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC, 28 July-1 August 2019, Riverside, USA. 1

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Superconducting computing

present status and perspectives

Nobuyuki Yoshikawa

1) Graduate School of Engineering

2) Institute of Advance Science

Yokohama National University Japan

ISEC 2019

July 28 ndash August 1 2018 Riverside CA

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Thomas Ortlepp Distinguished professor YNU

CiS Managing Director Germany

Nobuyuki Yoshikawa PI IAS Professor

Yuki Yamanashi IAS Associate Professor

Naoki Takeuchi IAS Associate Professor

Christopher Ayala IAS Associate Professor

Hideo Suzuki IAS Researcher

Olivia Chan IAS Assistant Professor

Yuxing He IAS Assistant Professor

Members in the research unit on ldquoExtremely Energy-Efficient Processorsrdquo

Members in Overseas

Institute of Advanced Sciences YNU

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Background

httpwwwtop500org

1st-ranked computers in recent TOP500

Low-Power Logic Devices is highly demanded

Estimated power consumption to

realize an exa-scale computer

gt 100 MW

~ $million100 MW per year

K computer (Japan)

Peak performance 105 PFLOPS

Power consumption 126 MW

1 EFLOPS

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AI is Power Hungry

httpjamieshottonorgworkresearchhtml

Example of Semantic Segmentation

httpswwwnvidiaco

men-ustitantitan-xp input size 513 x 513

Flops 346 GFLOPS

httpsgithubcomalbanieconvnet-burden

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Energy Efficiency of CMOS Chips

Energy efficiency of CMOS chips for different CMOS nodes

and die sizes

fchip = 1 GHz

A Fuchs and D Wentzlaff ldquoThe Accelerator Wall Limits of Chip-

Specializationrdquo the 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-

Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA rsquo19) 2019

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Normalized to 25 mm2 chip fabricated with 45 nm CMOS

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Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Circuits

Q = CLVDD

CMOS circuits

E = QVDD ~ 10-16 J

SFQ circuits

Ic

E = F0 Ic ~ 10-19 J

Φ0 = h(2e)

Superconducting loop

with Josephson junctions

Switching energy Switching energy

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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N

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Thomas Ortlepp Distinguished professor YNU

CiS Managing Director Germany

Nobuyuki Yoshikawa PI IAS Professor

Yuki Yamanashi IAS Associate Professor

Naoki Takeuchi IAS Associate Professor

Christopher Ayala IAS Associate Professor

Hideo Suzuki IAS Researcher

Olivia Chan IAS Assistant Professor

Yuxing He IAS Assistant Professor

Members in the research unit on ldquoExtremely Energy-Efficient Processorsrdquo

Members in Overseas

Institute of Advanced Sciences YNU

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Background

httpwwwtop500org

1st-ranked computers in recent TOP500

Low-Power Logic Devices is highly demanded

Estimated power consumption to

realize an exa-scale computer

gt 100 MW

~ $million100 MW per year

K computer (Japan)

Peak performance 105 PFLOPS

Power consumption 126 MW

1 EFLOPS

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AI is Power Hungry

httpjamieshottonorgworkresearchhtml

Example of Semantic Segmentation

httpswwwnvidiaco

men-ustitantitan-xp input size 513 x 513

Flops 346 GFLOPS

httpsgithubcomalbanieconvnet-burden

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Energy Efficiency of CMOS Chips

Energy efficiency of CMOS chips for different CMOS nodes

and die sizes

fchip = 1 GHz

A Fuchs and D Wentzlaff ldquoThe Accelerator Wall Limits of Chip-

Specializationrdquo the 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-

Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA rsquo19) 2019

10

Normalized to 25 mm2 chip fabricated with 45 nm CMOS

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Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Circuits

Q = CLVDD

CMOS circuits

E = QVDD ~ 10-16 J

SFQ circuits

Ic

E = F0 Ic ~ 10-19 J

Φ0 = h(2e)

Superconducting loop

with Josephson junctions

Switching energy Switching energy

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

15

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

20

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

22

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

23

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

24

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

25

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

26

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

27

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

29

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

30

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

31

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

33

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

34

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

35

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

36

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

37

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

40

N

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

44

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

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53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Thomas Ortlepp Distinguished professor YNU

CiS Managing Director Germany

Nobuyuki Yoshikawa PI IAS Professor

Yuki Yamanashi IAS Associate Professor

Naoki Takeuchi IAS Associate Professor

Christopher Ayala IAS Associate Professor

Hideo Suzuki IAS Researcher

Olivia Chan IAS Assistant Professor

Yuxing He IAS Assistant Professor

Members in the research unit on ldquoExtremely Energy-Efficient Processorsrdquo

Members in Overseas

Institute of Advanced Sciences YNU

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Background

httpwwwtop500org

1st-ranked computers in recent TOP500

Low-Power Logic Devices is highly demanded

Estimated power consumption to

realize an exa-scale computer

gt 100 MW

~ $million100 MW per year

K computer (Japan)

Peak performance 105 PFLOPS

Power consumption 126 MW

1 EFLOPS

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AI is Power Hungry

httpjamieshottonorgworkresearchhtml

Example of Semantic Segmentation

httpswwwnvidiaco

men-ustitantitan-xp input size 513 x 513

Flops 346 GFLOPS

httpsgithubcomalbanieconvnet-burden

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Energy Efficiency of CMOS Chips

Energy efficiency of CMOS chips for different CMOS nodes

and die sizes

fchip = 1 GHz

A Fuchs and D Wentzlaff ldquoThe Accelerator Wall Limits of Chip-

Specializationrdquo the 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-

Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA rsquo19) 2019

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Normalized to 25 mm2 chip fabricated with 45 nm CMOS

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Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Circuits

Q = CLVDD

CMOS circuits

E = QVDD ~ 10-16 J

SFQ circuits

Ic

E = F0 Ic ~ 10-19 J

Φ0 = h(2e)

Superconducting loop

with Josephson junctions

Switching energy Switching energy

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

13

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

14

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

15

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

17

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

18

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

20

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

22

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

23

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

24

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

25

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

26

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

27

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

29

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

30

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

31

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

33

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

34

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

35

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

36

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

37

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

40

N

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

41

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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43

Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

44

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44

AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

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46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

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47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

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53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

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57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

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61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Thomas Ortlepp Distinguished professor YNU

CiS Managing Director Germany

Nobuyuki Yoshikawa PI IAS Professor

Yuki Yamanashi IAS Associate Professor

Naoki Takeuchi IAS Associate Professor

Christopher Ayala IAS Associate Professor

Hideo Suzuki IAS Researcher

Olivia Chan IAS Assistant Professor

Yuxing He IAS Assistant Professor

Members in the research unit on ldquoExtremely Energy-Efficient Processorsrdquo

Members in Overseas

Institute of Advanced Sciences YNU

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Background

httpwwwtop500org

1st-ranked computers in recent TOP500

Low-Power Logic Devices is highly demanded

Estimated power consumption to

realize an exa-scale computer

gt 100 MW

~ $million100 MW per year

K computer (Japan)

Peak performance 105 PFLOPS

Power consumption 126 MW

1 EFLOPS

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AI is Power Hungry

httpjamieshottonorgworkresearchhtml

Example of Semantic Segmentation

httpswwwnvidiaco

men-ustitantitan-xp input size 513 x 513

Flops 346 GFLOPS

httpsgithubcomalbanieconvnet-burden

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Energy Efficiency of CMOS Chips

Energy efficiency of CMOS chips for different CMOS nodes

and die sizes

fchip = 1 GHz

A Fuchs and D Wentzlaff ldquoThe Accelerator Wall Limits of Chip-

Specializationrdquo the 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-

Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA rsquo19) 2019

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Normalized to 25 mm2 chip fabricated with 45 nm CMOS

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Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Circuits

Q = CLVDD

CMOS circuits

E = QVDD ~ 10-16 J

SFQ circuits

Ic

E = F0 Ic ~ 10-19 J

Φ0 = h(2e)

Superconducting loop

with Josephson junctions

Switching energy Switching energy

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

13

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

14

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

15

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

17

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

18

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

20

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

21

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

22

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22

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

23

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

24

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

25

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

26

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

27

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

29

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

30

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

31

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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31

Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

33

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

34

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

35

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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37

Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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38

Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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39

Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

40

N

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40

Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

41

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41

Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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42

Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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43

Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

44

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44

AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

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47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

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53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

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55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

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57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Thomas Ortlepp Distinguished professor YNU

CiS Managing Director Germany

Nobuyuki Yoshikawa PI IAS Professor

Yuki Yamanashi IAS Associate Professor

Naoki Takeuchi IAS Associate Professor

Christopher Ayala IAS Associate Professor

Hideo Suzuki IAS Researcher

Olivia Chan IAS Assistant Professor

Yuxing He IAS Assistant Professor

Members in the research unit on ldquoExtremely Energy-Efficient Processorsrdquo

Members in Overseas

Institute of Advanced Sciences YNU

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Background

httpwwwtop500org

1st-ranked computers in recent TOP500

Low-Power Logic Devices is highly demanded

Estimated power consumption to

realize an exa-scale computer

gt 100 MW

~ $million100 MW per year

K computer (Japan)

Peak performance 105 PFLOPS

Power consumption 126 MW

1 EFLOPS

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AI is Power Hungry

httpjamieshottonorgworkresearchhtml

Example of Semantic Segmentation

httpswwwnvidiaco

men-ustitantitan-xp input size 513 x 513

Flops 346 GFLOPS

httpsgithubcomalbanieconvnet-burden

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Energy Efficiency of CMOS Chips

Energy efficiency of CMOS chips for different CMOS nodes

and die sizes

fchip = 1 GHz

A Fuchs and D Wentzlaff ldquoThe Accelerator Wall Limits of Chip-

Specializationrdquo the 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-

Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA rsquo19) 2019

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Normalized to 25 mm2 chip fabricated with 45 nm CMOS

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Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Circuits

Q = CLVDD

CMOS circuits

E = QVDD ~ 10-16 J

SFQ circuits

Ic

E = F0 Ic ~ 10-19 J

Φ0 = h(2e)

Superconducting loop

with Josephson junctions

Switching energy Switching energy

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

15

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

17

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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19

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

20

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

22

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22

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

23

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23

Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

24

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

25

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25

QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

26

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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26

Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

27

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

30

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

31

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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32

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

34

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34

Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

35

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

40

N

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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41

Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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42

Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Thomas Ortlepp Distinguished professor YNU

CiS Managing Director Germany

Nobuyuki Yoshikawa PI IAS Professor

Yuki Yamanashi IAS Associate Professor

Naoki Takeuchi IAS Associate Professor

Christopher Ayala IAS Associate Professor

Hideo Suzuki IAS Researcher

Olivia Chan IAS Assistant Professor

Yuxing He IAS Assistant Professor

Members in the research unit on ldquoExtremely Energy-Efficient Processorsrdquo

Members in Overseas

Institute of Advanced Sciences YNU

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Background

httpwwwtop500org

1st-ranked computers in recent TOP500

Low-Power Logic Devices is highly demanded

Estimated power consumption to

realize an exa-scale computer

gt 100 MW

~ $million100 MW per year

K computer (Japan)

Peak performance 105 PFLOPS

Power consumption 126 MW

1 EFLOPS

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AI is Power Hungry

httpjamieshottonorgworkresearchhtml

Example of Semantic Segmentation

httpswwwnvidiaco

men-ustitantitan-xp input size 513 x 513

Flops 346 GFLOPS

httpsgithubcomalbanieconvnet-burden

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Energy Efficiency of CMOS Chips

Energy efficiency of CMOS chips for different CMOS nodes

and die sizes

fchip = 1 GHz

A Fuchs and D Wentzlaff ldquoThe Accelerator Wall Limits of Chip-

Specializationrdquo the 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-

Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA rsquo19) 2019

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Normalized to 25 mm2 chip fabricated with 45 nm CMOS

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Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Circuits

Q = CLVDD

CMOS circuits

E = QVDD ~ 10-16 J

SFQ circuits

Ic

E = F0 Ic ~ 10-19 J

Φ0 = h(2e)

Superconducting loop

with Josephson junctions

Switching energy Switching energy

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

15

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

17

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17

Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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19

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

20

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20

Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

27

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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N

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Background

httpwwwtop500org

1st-ranked computers in recent TOP500

Low-Power Logic Devices is highly demanded

Estimated power consumption to

realize an exa-scale computer

gt 100 MW

~ $million100 MW per year

K computer (Japan)

Peak performance 105 PFLOPS

Power consumption 126 MW

1 EFLOPS

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AI is Power Hungry

httpjamieshottonorgworkresearchhtml

Example of Semantic Segmentation

httpswwwnvidiaco

men-ustitantitan-xp input size 513 x 513

Flops 346 GFLOPS

httpsgithubcomalbanieconvnet-burden

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Energy Efficiency of CMOS Chips

Energy efficiency of CMOS chips for different CMOS nodes

and die sizes

fchip = 1 GHz

A Fuchs and D Wentzlaff ldquoThe Accelerator Wall Limits of Chip-

Specializationrdquo the 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-

Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA rsquo19) 2019

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Normalized to 25 mm2 chip fabricated with 45 nm CMOS

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Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Circuits

Q = CLVDD

CMOS circuits

E = QVDD ~ 10-16 J

SFQ circuits

Ic

E = F0 Ic ~ 10-19 J

Φ0 = h(2e)

Superconducting loop

with Josephson junctions

Switching energy Switching energy

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

26

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

27

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

30

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

31

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

35

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Background

httpwwwtop500org

1st-ranked computers in recent TOP500

Low-Power Logic Devices is highly demanded

Estimated power consumption to

realize an exa-scale computer

gt 100 MW

~ $million100 MW per year

K computer (Japan)

Peak performance 105 PFLOPS

Power consumption 126 MW

1 EFLOPS

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AI is Power Hungry

httpjamieshottonorgworkresearchhtml

Example of Semantic Segmentation

httpswwwnvidiaco

men-ustitantitan-xp input size 513 x 513

Flops 346 GFLOPS

httpsgithubcomalbanieconvnet-burden

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Energy Efficiency of CMOS Chips

Energy efficiency of CMOS chips for different CMOS nodes

and die sizes

fchip = 1 GHz

A Fuchs and D Wentzlaff ldquoThe Accelerator Wall Limits of Chip-

Specializationrdquo the 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-

Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA rsquo19) 2019

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Normalized to 25 mm2 chip fabricated with 45 nm CMOS

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Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Circuits

Q = CLVDD

CMOS circuits

E = QVDD ~ 10-16 J

SFQ circuits

Ic

E = F0 Ic ~ 10-19 J

Φ0 = h(2e)

Superconducting loop

with Josephson junctions

Switching energy Switching energy

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

24

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

26

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

27

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

30

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

31

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

35

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

36

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

40

N

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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httpjamieshottonorgworkresearchhtml

Example of Semantic Segmentation

httpswwwnvidiaco

men-ustitantitan-xp input size 513 x 513

Flops 346 GFLOPS

httpsgithubcomalbanieconvnet-burden

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Energy Efficiency of CMOS Chips

Energy efficiency of CMOS chips for different CMOS nodes

and die sizes

fchip = 1 GHz

A Fuchs and D Wentzlaff ldquoThe Accelerator Wall Limits of Chip-

Specializationrdquo the 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-

Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA rsquo19) 2019

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Normalized to 25 mm2 chip fabricated with 45 nm CMOS

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Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Circuits

Q = CLVDD

CMOS circuits

E = QVDD ~ 10-16 J

SFQ circuits

Ic

E = F0 Ic ~ 10-19 J

Φ0 = h(2e)

Superconducting loop

with Josephson junctions

Switching energy Switching energy

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Energy Efficiency of CMOS Chips

Energy efficiency of CMOS chips for different CMOS nodes

and die sizes

fchip = 1 GHz

A Fuchs and D Wentzlaff ldquoThe Accelerator Wall Limits of Chip-

Specializationrdquo the 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-

Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA rsquo19) 2019

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Normalized to 25 mm2 chip fabricated with 45 nm CMOS

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Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Circuits

Q = CLVDD

CMOS circuits

E = QVDD ~ 10-16 J

SFQ circuits

Ic

E = F0 Ic ~ 10-19 J

Φ0 = h(2e)

Superconducting loop

with Josephson junctions

Switching energy Switching energy

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

13

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

14

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

15

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

17

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17

Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

18

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

19

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

20

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

21

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

22

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

23

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

24

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

25

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25

QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

26

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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26

Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

27

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

29

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

30

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

31

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

33

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

34

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

35

Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

36

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

37

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

40

N

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

44

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Circuits

Q = CLVDD

CMOS circuits

E = QVDD ~ 10-16 J

SFQ circuits

Ic

E = F0 Ic ~ 10-19 J

Φ0 = h(2e)

Superconducting loop

with Josephson junctions

Switching energy Switching energy

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient SFQ

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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IRDS (International Roadmap for Device and Systems)

Available at httpsirdsieeeorgeditions2018

Energy and delay of gates with 100 mm

interconnection length

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) Circuits

bull Pulse height ~ 400 mV

bull Pulse width ~ 3 ps

bull Power ~ nWgate

T Flip-flop operating at up to 770 GHz

W Chen et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 9 3212ndash

3215 (1999)

256-b shift register operating at 12 GHz O Mukhanov et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 3

2578-2581 (1993) K K Likharev V K Semenov IEEE Trans Appl

Supercond 1 3ndash28 (1991)

Josephson junction

400 mV

3 ps

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

Energy-Efficient SFQ Circuits 16

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Power Consumption in RSFQ Logic

Reduction of static

power is required

Dynamic power dissipation

PD = F0Icf

Static power dissipation

PS = RbIc2

PD ~ PS20

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

26 035010 (2013)

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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DC Powered

RQL (Northrop Grumman)

PS ~ PD ~ IcF0f

LV-SFQ (Nagoya Univ)

PS ~ 0 PD ~ IcF0f

PS ~ 0 PD lt IcF0f

dt

Ф0V

RB

J1

RS

IB

VB

Q P Herr et al J Appl Phys

109 103903 (2011)

O A Mukhanov IEEE Trans

Appl Supercond 21 760 (2011)

ERSFQ (Hypres)

AC Powered

PS ~ 5PD PD ~ IcF0f

M Tanaka et al JJAP 5

1053102 (2012)

AQFP (Yokohama National Univ)

N Takeuchi et al SUST

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Comparison of Energy-Delay Product

Energy-efficient RSFQ

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Two Options in SC Digital Electronics

SFQ Logic

Extremely high throughput

50 GHz ~ 100 GHz frequency

RSFQ ERSFQ LVSFQ RQL

Adiabatic QFP Logic

Extremely high energy

efficiency

1~10 zJoperation

Combination of these two logic circuits brings about high-

performance digital systems

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

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7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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56-GHz Demonstration of Gate-Level-Pipelined Bit-Parallel ALU

1 mm

M9

M8

M7

M6M5M4M3M2

M1

Si Substrate

SiO2

Junction

Resistor

Completely Planarized Layer

Active layerincluding JJsand resistors

Main groundplane

Upper PTLs

Lower PTLs

DC power

SEM image by courtesy of AIST

S Nagasawa et al IEICE Trans Electron E97-C (2014) 132ndash140

clk

Op_and

Inv_x

Inv_y

C_out

Clk_outS0

S1S2

S3S4

S5S6

S7

Inpu

tO

utp

ut

Op_xor

Op_arith

Result

Input to SR_IN

AD

DA

DD

SU

B

SU

B

High Frequency clock1 0

0 0

0 0

0 0

01 0

00 1

00

01

1 1

11

1 1

11 0

1 0

1 0

0 0

0 1

1

1111 1111 ndash 1111 1111 = 1 0000 0000

1010 1010 ndash 1001 1001 = 1 0001 0001

1111 1111 + 1111 1111 = 1 1111 1110

1010 1010 + 1001 1001 = 1 0100 0011

56 GHz

M Tanaka et al ISLPED 2017 Design Contest Honorable Mention Award Taipei

7348 junctions 393times207 mm2

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

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[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

27

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Input energy E1

Output energy E2

Energy dissipation E2

Requirement for the reduction of

switching errors

E1 gt 100 kBT

F0

Ib

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Energy Potential of RSFQ Circuits

Energy

Phase State 1 State 2

E1

E2

Nonadiabatic

transition

Adiabatic operation of the system is required for

energy-efficient computing

F0

Ib

~ IbF0

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 1 77ndash89 (1991)

E Goto Proc 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics pp 48-51 (1984)

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Operation Principle of

Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP)

E Goto Pros 1st RIKEN Symp Josephson Electronics 1984

Iout

E

Iout

E

Iout

E

t

Exciting

current

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

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[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Potential Energy of QFP

coscos2

2

)()( 22

qL

S

L

Ejqfp EU

2

2

22

22

22

212100

0

0

0

01

00

1

F

F

F

F

F

IEE

ILIL

ILIM

Jj

q

qL

Sq

SE

E

M Hosoya et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond vol 1 1991 pp 77 ndash 89

Normalized exciting

current

Normalized input

current

Normalized loop

inductance

Normalized output

inductance

E

S

q

L

E = 15 E = 27 E = 22

(L q) = (10 30)

25

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

26

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

27

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

30

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

34

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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QFP in Nonadiabatic and Adiabatic Modes

(L q) = (10 30)

(L q) = (08 04)

Non-adiabatic-mode QFP

Adiabatic-mode QFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

40

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

41

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Evolution of Junction Phase

The phase of junctions

in AQFP change

adiabatically Ph

ase

diffe

ren

ce

s

Excitation flux

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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When rise time is 1000 ps Ebit = 0023 IcF0 (~ 20kBT)

11000 of RSFQ

E

S

q

L

fEnergy dissipation

Bit Energy vs Clock Period of AQFP 28

(L L)

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Robust AQFP Design

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

(02 16)

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic and

the rise time is 100 ps

Bit Energy Bias Margin

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 (2013) 1700304

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

30

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

35

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

41

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

bull c McCumber parameter

Damping

resistance

c ~ 1 critical damping

c gt 1 under damping

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

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58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

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61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Energy Consumption of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

Bit Energy

bull rf Risingfalling time of clock

Intrinsic switching time

cccsw

I

C

RI

00 2 F

F

rf

rf is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

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(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Bit-Error-Rate (BER) of the AQFP at

Finite Temperatures

bull Iteration number is 104

(L q) = (02 16) Ic = 50 mA

Linn = Lqn kq = 03 Iin1 = 01Ic

and rise time is 200 ps

T [K] IcF0KBT Bias Margin for BER lt 10-23

42 110 plusmn194

12 386 plusmn138

20 232 plusmn88

N Takeuchi et al IEEE TAS 23 1700304 (2013)

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

41

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

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Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

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An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Important Metrics as a Logic Circuit

Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Takeuchi et al Phys Rev Appl 4 034007 (2015)

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

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119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Gainsignal reproducibility

Functionality

Speed

Energy consumption

Driving ability

Connectability

Robustness

Density

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Signal Propagation in AQFP Array

Excitation

Outputs

x2 = 05

(L q) = (02 16)

Ic = 50 mA

Iin1 = 5 mA

Lin = Lq kq = 03

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

37

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

40

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

41

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Gain

Current gain of AQFP is considerably large

If we assume

dIin ~ 1 mA and Ic = 50 mA

the current gain is given by

Ic dIin ~ 50

cf In RSFQ circuits with

Iin ~ 20 mA Ic = 100 mA

the current gain is ~ 5

N Takeuchi et al SUST 26 035010 (2013)

Current gain vs input current at T = 0K

dIin input thermal noise

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

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N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

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Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

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Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

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Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Functionality

NOT gate is cost free

Majority gate is a basic logic gate

-

NOT gate is made by using a

transformer with negative coupling

Buffer NOT

Majority gate is made by connecting

three buffer in parallel

Majority a b c

x

x = MAJ(a b c) = ab + bc + ac

K Inoue et al IEEE Trans Appl Supercond 23 1301105 (2013)

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

119871119886119905119890119899119888119910 =119888119897119900119888119896 119901119890119903119894119900119889

119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

41

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

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53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

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57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

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58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

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59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

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60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

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62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

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64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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Speed

AQFP is driven by multi-phase clocks (4-phase is typically used)

Target clock frequency is 5 GHz

Double excitation method can increases the clock frequency [1]

Latency is improved by increasing the number of phase

Clocking of AQFP gates

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119899119906119898119887119890119903 119900119891 119901ℎ119886119904119890

[1] K Fang et al J Appl Phys 121 143901 (2017)

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

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39

Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

40

N

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

41

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41

Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

42

Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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43

Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

44

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44

AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

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46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

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47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

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51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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Energy Consumption

The static energy consumption is zero the dynamic energy consumption

is proportional to the clock frequency

The energy consumption is reduced by using high-Jc and high-c junctions

c is 1000 ps Ic = 50 mA

c Dependence of Bit-Energy of AQFP

2 0rf

swcbit IE

F

ccc

swj

c

RI

00 2 F

F

Bit energy

Intrinsic switching time

39

N Takeuchi et al APL 103 052602 (2013)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

39

Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

40

N

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40

Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

41

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

41

Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

42

Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

43

Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

44

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44

AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

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51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

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53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

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57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

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58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

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59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

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60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

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62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

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63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

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64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Driving Ability

Fan-out of AQFP gate is relatively large (~ 4)

cf optimal fan-out of CMOS is 3 ~ 4

Fan-out 14 splitter

AIST Nb Josephson standard process

(STP2) was used

40

N

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

41

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41

Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

42

Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

43

Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

44

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44

AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

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46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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66

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Connectability

The output current of AQFP gate decreases with increase

of interconnect inductance which limits the wire length

Lmax ~ 1 mm

Iout vs Lwire

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

Testing of maximum wiring length

41

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

41

Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

42

Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

43

Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

44

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

44

AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

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53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

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57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

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59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

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60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

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61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

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62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

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63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

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64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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Robustness

Wide operation margins were

observed in experiments

42

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

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42

Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

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43

Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

44

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

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46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

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47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

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50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

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51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

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55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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Demonstrated 84k-Junction AQFP buffer array 43

AIST 10 kAcm2 high-speed standard

process (HSTP) was used

Area 668times623 mm2

Bias Current 360 mA

JJ number 83736

AQFP is robust because

The operation is based on

differential pairs of junctions

and inductances

The critical current of all

junctions is the same

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

43

Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

44

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44

AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

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59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

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60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

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62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

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63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

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64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Density

Multi-layer processes improve the circuit density

13times25 mm2

(-675 area reduction)

25times40 mm2

Excitation line

(upper layers)

Transformer

(lower layers)

4-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

Si Substrate

SiO 2

Nb JJ

Mo Resistor

AlOx

BAS (M2) GC

RC RC

JC

BC

COU (M3)

BAS (M2)

COU (M3)

CC CC

COU

CTL (M4) CTL (M4)

SiO 2

JP Nb Pd - NW1 (40 nm + 40 nm)

I1+I2+I3 +I4 (700 nm)

I5 (500 nm)

CC

CTL (M4)

CC

IN1 (100 nm)

Nb Pd - NW2 (40 nm + 40 nm) IN2 (100 nm)

Nb Ground Plane (M1)

7-metal layer process

(Junction size ~ 1 mm)

~ 03M gatecm2

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

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45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

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46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

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47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

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48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

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51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

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52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

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53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

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56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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AQFP Cell Library for the MIT LL

8-Metal Layer Process

bull AQFP and an output

transformer can be

overlapped by using the

MIT LL multilayer process

Schematic of an

AQFP buffer

15 mm x 20 mm

Supported by IARPA SuperTools project

AIST HSTP process

MIT LL process

(SFQ5ee)

Layouts of an AQFP buffer

20 mm x 40 mm

45

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

45

Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

66

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Design Methodology

Logic cells can be designed by placing four building blocks

Buffer NOT Constant Branch

46

(

accbba

cbax

  

MAJ (

ab

ba

bax

  

  

1MAJ azyx

Majority NAND Splitter

Buffer 13-branch

NOT

1-constant

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

46

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

46

Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

66

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Layout of Basic Cells

47

Building block cells Majority cell

Symmetric design prevents the parasitic coupling between

the excitation and output inductance

N Takeuchi et al J Appl Phys 117 173912 (2015)

47

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

47

AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

66

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AQFP Logic Design

Logic cells are placed together

like Lego blocks

Logic gates grouped by phase

amp data flow

Inputs Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 1

Outputs

Data

flo

w

AQFP design flow

48

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

48

HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

66

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HDL-Modeling of AQFP Logic

49

An AQFP majority gate is modeled by a

combinational logic with a larch

HDL-modeling of AQFP Majority gate Waveform of AQFP majority gate

Analog simulation results

Digital simulation results

49

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 26 1ndash5 (2016)

Q Xu et al IEEE TAS 27 1301905 (2017)

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49

EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

66

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EDA Tools for Top-Down Design

VerilogVHDL Schematic Digital Sim Layout Chip

50

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

50

AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

66

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AQFP Circuits Fabricated by Top-Down

Design Flow

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

4-bit shifter 8-bit shifter 16-bit carry look-

ahead adder

12-bit instruction

decoder

Correct

operation

confirmed

1090 JJ

7100 JJ

4976 JJ 2664 JJ Partial operation confirmed Partial operation confirmed

C Ayala et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

T Tanaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

Y Murai et al IEEE TAS 27 1ndash9 (2017)

T Tanaka et al IEEE TAS 291-6 (2019)

51

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

51

Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

66

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Measurement of Energy Consumption of

AQFP Circuits at 5 GHz

8-bit AQFP Cary Look-ahead Adder

The total junction count 1638

Output waveform of carry 1 GHz

Power consumption measurements

Energy consumption 15 aJoperation

~ 24 kBTjunction

5 GHz

52

Takeuchi et al APL 114 (2019) 042602

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

52

Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

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58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

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63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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66

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Delay-line Clocking for Short Latency

Takeuchi et al APL to be published

Phase-to-phase clock delay

shorten by delay line

5-GHz 4-phse

clock latency

~ 50 ps

4-GHz test result of AQFP buffer

array with latency of 10 ps

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Delay-line

clock latency

~ 5 ps

53

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53

Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

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54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

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55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

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56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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66

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Directly Coupled AQFP Logic

Takeuchi et al submitted to Phys Rev Appl

Directly coupled AQFP inverter

Transformer was removed to decrease the cell size

Good for scaling down the device size in the future Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Conventional AQFP inverter

54

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

54

Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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66

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Development of 3D AQFP ICs

Double Gate Process (DGP) Comparison of XOR Gate

DGP HSTP

The circuit area was reduced by 44

T Ando et al SUST 30 (2017) 075003

55

Fabricated by AIST DGP

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

55

Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

66

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Outlines of This Talk

Background and motivation

Past and present status of superconducting digital

electronics

Operation principles of AQFP circuits

AQFP as a logic circuit

Recent research activities on AQFP circuits

Future directions

JosephsonCMOS hybrid memories

Reversible logic circuits

Summary

56

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

56

Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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Future Directions

Memories

Josephson-CMOS hybrid memories

Magnetic memories

More energy efficient logic

Reversible QFP (RQFP) circuits

Other applications

Control and readout circuits for Quantum computers

Read out circuits for superconducting sensor arrays

57

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57

JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

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58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

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59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

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60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

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62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

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63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

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64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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JosephsonCMOS Hybrid Memory

[1] Ghoshal et al IEEE TAS 3 2316 1993

64-kb Cryo-CMOS RAM

[2] G Konno et al IEEE TAS 27 1300607 2017

180 nm CMOS and 25 kAcm2 JJ processes

Concept of hybrid

Josephson-CMOS RAM

Successful demonstration of SFQ processor with

a cryo-CMOS memory

Y Hironaka et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

58

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58

AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

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59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

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60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

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62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

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63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

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64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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AQFP-CMOS Hybrid FPGA

Concept 8T CMOS memory cell with

AQFP read-out

Reduction of output current of a

memory cell with reduced VDD

CMOS memory is used as a rewritable ROM

Power consumption of CMOS is reduced by

decreasing VDD

Y Okuma et al submitted to IEEE TAS

AQFP two-by-two logic cells

59

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59

Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

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60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

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62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

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63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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Issues in JosephsonCMOS Hybrid systems

CMOS devices consume a lot of power

105 times larger than AQFP

Connection between Josephson and CMOS devices

Use of low VTH

process

Use of adiabatic

decoder

Use of new amplifier

(nTron)

Use of flip chip bonding ~100 pads1 mm2

Use of monolithic JosephsonCMOS fabrication process

60

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60

Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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Flip-chip Bonding Monolithic Process

Hybrid integration of AQFP and

nTron chips

Curtesy of Prof Ortlepp and Prof Berggren

T Ortlepp et al ISEC2019 Riverside

Monolithic integration of AQFP

and CMOS circuits

CMOS circuits on a large wafer

Trimming of small

wafers

Josephson circuit

fabrication

61

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

61

Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

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65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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66

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Landauerrsquos Principle

Equivalence between thermodynamic entropy and

information entropy

For computation reducing the information entropy the

minimum bit energy Ebit = kBTln2 is consumed

For computation conserving the information entropy

there is no minimum limit of bit energy in computation

R Landauer IBM Journal of Research and Development 5 183 (1961)

C H Bennett IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 525 (1973)

Thermodynamic entropy = Information entropy

101100010100110

62

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

62

Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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Reversible Computing

bull The entropy is conserved

during computation

bull Logical reversibility is

required Input Output

c p q x y z

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 1 0

0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 1

1 1 0 1 1 0

1 1 1 1 1 1

Fredkin gate

Physical reversibility bi-

directionality is also required

E Fredkin and T Toffoli Int J Theor Phys 21

219-253 (1982)

data input data output

63

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

63

Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

65

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

65

Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

66

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Reversible AQFP (RQFP)

Reversible majority QFP gate

A logically and physically reversible

gate can be achieved by using

AQFP gates

N Takeuchi et al Scientific Reports 4 6354 (2014)

Reversible majority QFP gate

64

IEEE CSC amp ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition) September 2019 Plenary presentation 2-KN given at ISEC 28 July-1 August 2019 Riverside USA

64

Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Reversible AQFP Adder

T Yamae et al SUST 32 035005 (2019)

Fabricated by AIST HSTP

Schematic of 1b full adder Energy dissipation of 1b full adder

Bit energy smaller than kBTln2 is

possible in RQFP circuits

kBT ln2

RQFP register file see Yamae et al ISEC 2019 Riverside

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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Summary

Two outstanding features of superconducting

logic circuits

High-speed SFQ logic circuits

Energy-efficient AQFP logic circuits

Memories are key devices for digital

applications

Hybrid Josephson-MOS memory has its potential

More energy-efficient logic circuit is possible

by using RQFP

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