A Josephson technology system level experiment

Abstract

This letter describes the first system level test vehicle in Josephson technology. The experiment consists of four circuit chips assembled on two cards in a high density, 3-dimensional, card-on-board package. A data path, which is representative of a critical path of a future prototype processor, was successfully operated with a minimum cycle time of 3.7ns. The path simulates a jump control sequence and a cache access in each machine cycle. This experiment incorporates the essential components of the logic, power and package portions of a Josephson technology prototype.