Josephson address control unit IC for a 4-bit microcomputer prototype

S. Kosaka, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Hirotoshi Kawamura, Yoichi Okada, Yoichi Hamazaki, Masahiro Aoyagi, I. Kurosawa, A. Shoji, S. Takada

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics · 1989 · 16 citations · 4 references

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Abstract

The authors describe the design and operation of a Josephson address control unit IC (integrated circuit), which will be used for controlling the instruction sequence of an experimental 4-bit Josephson microcomputer prototype system. The IC is composed of three sets of 7- to 10-bit-wide registers and combinational logic circuits driven by a two-phase monopolar power supply. 593 four-function logic gates have been used in the circuit and fabricated using 2.5- mu m NbN/oxide/NbN junction technology with Mo resistors and SiO/sub 2/ insulation. The operation of the circuit has been successfully tested for all the instructions which control the program sequence of the computer system.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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