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System design automation aims to manage the design of embedded systems with ever-increasing complexity. To the success of system design automation, there is still a lack of systematic and formal design process because an entire design…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Rui Chen , Ingo Sander

High-fidelity gate operations are essential to the realization of a fault-tolerant quantum computer. In addition, the physical resources required to implement gates must scale efficiently with system size. A longstanding goal of the…

Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic is a promising technology to supersede Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic in some specialized areas due to providing ultra-fast and energy-efficient circuits. To realize a large-scale…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Shucheng Yang , Xiaoping Gao , Jie Ren

The Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) logic family is a novel digital logic as it provides ultra-fast and energy-efficient circuits. For large-scale SFQ circuit design, specialized electronic design automation (EDA) tools are required due to the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Shucheng Yang , Xiaoping Gao , Ruoting Yang , Jie Ren , Zhen Wang

The single flux quantum (SFQ) digital superconducting logic family has been proposed for the scalable control of next-generation superconducting qubit arrays. In the initial implementation, SFQ-based gate fidelity was limited by…

The control of cryogenic qubits in today's superconducting quantum computer prototypes presents significant scalability challenges due to the massive costs of generating/routing the analog control signals that need to be sent from a…

One of the most important and topical challenges of quantum circuits is their scalability. Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) technology is at the forefront of replacing current standard CMOS-based control architectures for a number of…

Superconducting Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) logic offers a promising platform for ultra-low-power, high-frequency computing. However, their pulse-based nature poses challenges for scalable modeling, design, and verification using conventional…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Elisabeth Feng , Robert S. Aviles , Peter A. Beerel

We believe that the best chance to observe macroscopic quantum coherence (MQC) in a rf-SQUID qubit is to use on-chip RSFQ digital circuits for preparing, evolving and reading out the qubit's quantum state. This approach allows experiments…

Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) circuits are the most evolved superconductor logic family. However, the need to clock each cell and the deep pipeline causes a complex clock network with a large skew. This results in lower throughput and…

We report the first experimental demonstration of recently proposed energy-efficient single flux quantum logic, eSFQ. This logic can represent the next generation of RSFQ logic eliminating dominant static power dissipation associated with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Mark Hans Volkmann , Anubhav Sahu , Coenrad Johan Fourie , Oleg A. Mukhanov

Single-flux-quantum (SFQ) circuits have great potential in building cryogenic quantum-classical interfaces for scaling up superconducting quantum processors. SFQ-based quantum gates have been designed and realized. However, current control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Kuang Liu , Yifan Wang , Bo Ji , Wanpeng Gao , Zhirong Lin , Zhen Wang

Exascale computing and its associated applications have required increasing degrees of efficiency. Semiconductor-Transistor-based Circuits (STbCs) have struggled with increasing the GHz frequency while dealing with power dissipation issues.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Junyao Zhang , Paul Bogdan , Shahin Nazarian

We present a gradient-based method to construct memory-efficient, high-fidelity, single-qubit gates for fluxonium qubits. These gates are constructed using a sequence of single-flux quantum (SFQ) pulses that are sent to the qubit through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Maxime Lapointe-Major , Boyan Torosov , Bohdan Kulchytskyy , Pooya Ronagh

In this paper, we propose a semi-formal verification framework for single-flux quantum (SFQ) circuits called VeriSFQ, using the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) standard. The considered SFQ technology is superconducting digital…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Alvin D. Wong , Kevin Su , Hang Sun , Arash Fayyazi , Massoud Pedram , Shahin Nazarian

Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) technology represents a groundbreaking advancement in computational efficiency and ultra-high-speed neuromorphic processing. The key features of SFQ technology, particularly data representation, transmission, and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu , Beyza Zeynep Ucpinar , Sasan Razmkhah , Mehdi Kamal , Massoud Pedram

Gate-level clocking, typical in traditional approaches to Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) technology, makes the effective synthesis of superconducting circuits a significant engineering hurdle. This paper addresses this challenge by employing the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jennifer Volk , Panagiotis Papanikolaou , Georgios Zervakis , Georgios Tzimpragos

Designing efficient quantum circuits is a central bottleneck to exploring the potential of quantum computing, particularly for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, where circuit efficiency and resilience to errors are paramount.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Jun Dai , Michael Rizvi-Martel , Guillaume Rabusseau

Developing robust and high performance quantum software is challenging due to the dynamic nature of existing Python-based frameworks, which often suffer from runtime errors and scalability bottlenecks. In this work, we present LogosQ, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Shiwen An , Jiayi Wang , Konstantinos Slavakis

Digital single-flux quantum (SFQ) technology promises to meet the demands of ultra low power and high speed computing needed for future exascale supercomputing systems. The combination of ultra high clock frequencies, gate-level pipelines,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Gourav Datta , Haolin Cong , Souvik Kundu , Peter A. Beerel
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