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Tantalum and aluminum on sapphire are widely used platforms for qubits of long coherent time. As quantum chips scale up, the number of Josephson junctions on Sapphire increases. Thus, both the uniformity and stability of the junctions are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-08 Yuzhen Zheng , Shuming Li , Zengqian Ding , Kanglin Xiong , Jiagui Feng , Hui Yang

To advance the energy efficiency of general digital computing far beyond the thermodynamic limits that apply to conventional digital circuits will require utilizing the principles of reversible computing. It has been known since the early…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Michael P. Frank , Robert W. Brocato , Brian D. Tierney , Nancy A. Missert , Alexander H. Hsia

We propose the Moderate Adaptive Linear Unit (MoLU), a novel activation function for deep neural networks, defined analytically as: f(x)=x \times (1+tanh(x))/2. MoLU combines mathematical elegance with empirical effectiveness, exhibiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Hankyul Koh , Joon-hyuk Ko , Wonho Jhe

Single-Flux Quantum (SFQ) digital logic is typically energy efficient and fast, and logic that uses ballistic and reversible principles provides a new platform to improve efficiency. We are studying long Josephson junctions (long JJs), SFQs…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Han Cai , Liuqi Yu , Waltraut Wustmann , Ryan Clarke , Kevin D. Osborn

We present the results of an industry-grade fabrication of superconducting qubits on 200 mm wafers utilizing CMOS-established processing methods. By automated waferprober resistance measurements at room temperature, we demonstrate a…

The widespread application of artificial neural networks has prompted researchers to experiment with FPGA and customized ASIC designs to speed up their computation. These implementation efforts have generally focused on weight…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Tao Yang , Yadong Wei , Zhijun Tu , Haolun Zeng , Michel A. Kinsy , Nanning Zheng , Pengju Ren

The growing demand for ultra low power computing and the emergence of quantum technologies have intensified interest in cryogenic electronics, particularly superconducting devices. Despite their promise, current controlled superconducting…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Md Mazharul Islam , Diego Ferrer , Shamiul Alam , Juan P. Mendez , Denis Mamaluy , Wei Pan , Ahmedullah Aziz

We have demonstrated a novel type of superconducting transmon qubit in which a Josephson junction has been engineered to act as its own parallel shunt capacitor. This merged-element transmon (MET) potentially offers a smaller footprint and…

We describe a fabrication stackup for digital logic with 16 superconducting NbTiN layers, self-shunted a-silicon barrier Josephson Junctions (JJs), and low loss, high-$\kappa$ tunable HZO capacitors. The stack enables 400 MJJ/cm$^2$ device…

Large language model (LLM) inference performance is increasingly bottlenecked by the memory wall. While GPUs continue to scale raw compute throughput, they struggle to deliver scalable performance for memory bandwidth bound workloads. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Matthew Adiletta , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

Today, almost all information processing is performed using electronic logic circuits operating with up to several gigahertz frequency. All-optical logic, however, that holds the promise to allow up to three orders of magnitude higher speed…

The CMOS integrated chips at advanced technology nodes are becoming more vulnerable to various sources of faults like manufacturing imprecisions, variations, aging, etc. Additionally, the intentional fault attacks (e.g., high power…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-08 Naveen Kumar Macha , Bhavana Tejaswini Repalle , Sandeep Geedipally , Rafael Rios , Mostafizur Rahman

Josephson junctions are a key element of superconducting quantum technology, serving as the core building blocks of superconducting qubits. We present an experimental study on room-temperature electrical tuning of aluminum junctions,…

Power consumption has emerged as a primary design constraint for integrated circuits (ICs). In the Nano meter technology regime, leakage power has become a major component of total power. Full adder is the basic functional unit of an ALU.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Karthik Reddy. G

This paper presents a novel algorithm for the modulus operation for FPGA implementation. The proposed algorithm use only addition, subtraction, logical, and bit shift operations, avoiding the complexities and hardware costs associated with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-10 W. A. Susantha Wijesinghe

Suppressing errors is the central challenge for useful quantum computing, requiring quantum error correction for large-scale processing. However, the overhead in the realization of error-corrected ``logical'' qubits, where information is…

While recent advances in AI SoC design have focused heavily on accelerating tensor computation, the equally critical task of tensor manipulation, centered on high,volume data movement with minimal computation, remains underexplored. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Weiyu Zhou , Zheng Wang , Chao Chen , Yike Li , Yongkui Yang , Zhuoyu Wu , Anupam Chattopadhyay

Single flux quantum (SFQ) technology has garnered significant attention due to its low switching power and high operational speed. Researchers have been actively pursuing more advanced devices and technologies to further reduce the reliance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-24 Haolin Cong , Sasan Razmkhah , Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu , Massoud Pedram

The development of large-scale quantum processors benefits from superconducting qubits that can operate at elevated temperatures and be fabricated with scalable, foundry-compatible processes. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is increasingly…

In recent years, Reversible Logic is becoming more and more prominent technology having its applications in Low Power CMOS, Quantum Computing, Nanotechnology, and Optical Computing. Reversibility plays an important role when energy…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-10-01 H G Rangaraju , U. Venugopal , K N Muralidhara , K B Raja