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Reciprocal Quantum Logic combines the speed and power-efficiency of single-flux quantum superconductor devices with design features that are similar to CMOS. We have demonstrated an 8-bit carry look-ahead adder in the technology using…
Analog/mixed-signal circuits are key for interfacing electronics with the physical world. Their design, however, remains a largely handcrafted process, resulting in long and error-prone design cycles. While the recent rise of AI-based…
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This paper presents the usage of the Reed Solomon Codes as the Forward Error Correction (FEC) unit of the Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) methods. Parametric and flexible FPGA implementation details of such Erasure-Only RS decoders…
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Despite the wide applications for high-repetition-rate mode-locked fiber lasers, challenges persist in shortening the cavity length and coupling the fiber collimators for most existing techniques. Here, we introduce a novel collimator…
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