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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7602207 | Quantum-dot cellular automata methods and devices A Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) device having normal QCA cells laid out in a planar structure such that there are a set of input lines, that may be columns, and a set of orthogonal, output lines, that may be rows. The device has clocking regions that control t... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7403032 | Tunneling diode logic IC using CML-type input driving circuit configuration and monostable bistable transition logic element (MOBILE) The present invention relates to CML(Current Mode Logic)-type input driving method and tunneling diode logic using MOBILE(Monostable Nistable transition Logic Element) configuration, as kinds of very high-speed digital logic circuits. The objectives of the pr... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7362125 | Digital routing switch matrix for digitized radio-frequency signals Routing and distribution of radio-frequency (RF) signals is commonly achieved in the analog domain. However, improved performance and simplified circuit architectures may be obtained by first digitizing the RF signal, and then carrying out all routing in the digital... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7291140 | System and method for low average power dermatologic light treatment device The invention comprises a system and method for providing for pulses or relatively low energy light to an area of skin being treated. Typically, these low energy pulses will include shorter wavelength light, and will provided for multiple pulses of light for the are... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7227480 | Current steering type single flux quantum circuit Disclosed is a single flux quantum circuit that uses a flux quantum as an information carrier, which generates a SFQ clock signal with little clock jitter and supplies the SFQ clock signal to a SFQ function circuit of the SFQ circuit, the SFQ function circuit is con... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7212026 | Spin-orbital quantum cellular automata logic devices and systems Spin-orbital quantum cellular automata logic devices and integrated circuits in the form of a substrate having a thin film of material on the substrate having strongly coupled spin-orbital states, the thin film being patterned to define at least one input and at lea... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7196541 | Electronic circuit with array of programmable logic cells An electronic circuit has a programmable logic cell with a plurality of programmable logic units that are capable of being configured to operate in a multi-bit operand mode and a random logic mode. The programmable logic units are coupled in parallel between an inpu... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7002366 | Superconducting constant current source An on-chip current regulator for a superconducting logic circuit isolates the superconducting logic circuit from external noise, reduces the effects of process fluctuations on the performance of the logic circuit and significantly reduces total circuit power require... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6979836 | Superconducting low inductance qubit A superconducting structure that can operate, for example, as a qubit or a superconducting switch is presented. The structure includes a loop formed from two parts. A first part includes two superconducting materials separated by a junction. The junction can, for ex... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6734699 | Self-clocked complementary logic A superconducting self-clocked complementary SFQ logic family. The basic element of the circuit is a plurality of Josephson junctions and a control inductance coupled across a pair of voltage rails. An important aspect of the invention relates to the use of voltage ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6724216 | Rapid single-flux-quantum logic circuit and rapid single-flux-quantum output conversion circuit A rapid single-flux-quantum RSFQ logic circuit includes a first circuit portion having a first end grounded and having in-series connected first and second Josephson junctions. A second circuit portion has a first end grounded and has in-series connected third and f... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6703857 | Integrated circuit of superconducting circuit blocks and method of designing the same An integrated circuit comprises plural superconducting circuit blocks connected through superconducting wiring strips, and each superconducting circuit block includes at least one superconducting logic circuit, constant input/output circuits connected bet... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6518786 | Combinational logic using asynchronous single-flux quantum gates An asynchronous SFQ logic cell that is amenable to being used in combinational logic circuits. Rather than encode each digital logic bit as one SFQ pulse, each logic bit is encoded as a series of SFQ pulses. As such, merge and join circuits can be used fo... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6486694 | Universal delay-insensitive logic cell The invention provides a universal, delay-insensitive RSFQ logic cell comprising two input circuits and two clock circuits, each containing a plurality of Josephson elements. The two input circuits generate and sustain persistent currents in response to i... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6310488 | Superconductive single flux quantum logic circuit In a superconductive single flux quantum logic circuit having two superconductive closed loops each comprising a Josephson junction and one or more inductors, a load inductance part is comprised of an inductor and a Josephson junction and two or more mean... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6242939 | Superconducting circuit having superconductive circuit device of voltage-type logic and superconductive circuit device of fluxoid-type logic device selectively used therein A superconducting circuit device of a voltage-type logic device is large in current driving capability and, accordingly, electric power consumption; however, the switching speed is not so fast, and a superconducting circuit device of a fluxoid-type logic ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6188236 | Arrangement and method relating to digital information in superconducting circuits A logic circuit arrangement includes signal input and signal output devices and a number of SFQ circuits having Josephson junctions in which carrier devices are used for carrying digital information. The SFQ circuits are sampled at the input/output for pr... | 02/13/2001 |
| 5598105 | Elementary cell for constructing asynchronous superconducting logic circuits An elementary cell uses single-flux-quanta as two-valued logic propagation signals and is effective for Constructing asynchronous superconducting logic circuits. The elementary cell comprises one OR circuit section and one AND circuit section. Input pulse... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5389837 | Superconducting flux flow digital circuits A NOR/inverter logic gate circuit and a flip flop circuit implemented with superconducting flux flow transistors (SFFTs). Both circuits comprise two SFFTs with feedback lines. They have extremely low power dissipation, very high switching speeds, and the ... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5233244 | Josephson logic gate having a plurality of input ports and a Josephson logic circuit that uses such a Josephson logic gate A multiple-input Josephson AND gate having a plurality of input ports comprises a plurality of Josephson logic gate elements of a number corresponding to the number of said input ports and cascaded with each other from a first stage to a final stage, each... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5233243 | Superconducting push-pull flux quantum logic circuits Push-pull flux quantum superconducting digital logic circuits are provided with a circuit branch having a pair of Josephson junctions electrically connected in series with each other. This circuit branch is connected between positive and negative bias vol... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5233242 | Superconducting push-pull flux quantum gate array cells Push-pull flux quantum gate array cells synchronously process a pair of polarized data signals. These polarized data signals can be derived from dual polarity data signals by separating the input signals into positive polarity data signals and negative po... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5170080 | Superconducting push-pull flux quantum digital logic circuits Superconducting digital logic circuits constructed in accordance with this invention include a circuit branch having first and second Josephson junctions electrically connected in series with each other, with a junction point between the first and second ... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5164618 | Superconducting gate array cells Superconducting timed gate array cells for use in single-rail logic circuits are provided by adding inputs to modified variable threshold logic (MVTL) timed inverter circuits. Data signals which are inphase with a first phase of a power source are coupled... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5151617 | Superconducting logic circuit A superconducting logic circuit is configured by using two kinds of input-output type quantum flux parametrons (QFP), that is, a periodically excited input-output type QFP and an arbitrarily excited input-output type QFP. The periodically excited QFP is e... | 09/29/1992 |
| 4713562 | Josephson-junction logic circuit A Josephson-junction logic circuit comprises at least one Josephson-junction logic gate which has a variable threshold-type superconductive quantum interference element. The Josephson-junction logic gate comprises a superconductive inductance loop, and at... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4672244 | Josephson logic integrated circuit A Josephson logic integrated circuit packaged on a single substrate, wherein a portion for delivering an output out of the integrated circuit is constructed of an A.C.-driven Josephson logic circuit, and a portion for driving the internal part of the inte... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4634899 | Current injection logic device with Josephson diode network A current injection logic device with Josephson diode network comprises three parallel branches, each having three Josephson diodes in series, the first and last diodes of each of the branches being respectively connected to a first and a second main elec... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4611132 | Circuit utilizing Josephson effect A gate circuit includes a first group of N resistors connected together at one end to form a first input terminal for receiving an input current, a second group of N-1 resistors connected in series and connecting the other ends of the first group of resis... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4570087 | Josephson diode logic device Current injection logic device with a system of Josephson diodes. This system is constituted by N parallel branches, each having a first and a second Josephson diode in series, so as to provide a connection. All the first and second diodes are respectively con... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4559459 | High gain non-linear threshold input Josephson junction logic circuit A high gain Josephson junction logic circuit is provided. The novel circuit comprises a high gain non-linear threshold input Josephson junction logic circuit which is coupled to a high gain Josephson junction amplifier. The high gain input circuit provide... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4555643 | Superconducting logic circuit and superconducting switching device therefor A superconducting logic circuit including a first power source terminal connected with a current source; a second power source terminal connected with a current sink; a first superconducting switching device connected between said first power source termi... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4538077 | Circuit utilizing Josephson effect A circuit utilizing Josephson junctions to perform high speed logic gate switching functions. Three "Y" connected resistors have Josephson junction devices at their non-connected ends. The resistances of the resistors, the critical currents of the Josephs... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4506172 | Decoder circuit utilizing josephson devices This invention discloses a decoder circuit utilizing Josephson devices where Josephson AND gates, output lines connecting both terminals of each said Josephson device and an input signal line are provided in as many as 2n in number in the nth s... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4482821 | Superconductive logic circuit A basic logic circuit of a superconductive logic circuit comprises a bridge circuit of four branches wherein first and second terminals are connected at least at two nodes and an output terminal is connected at least at a node. One branch of the bridge ci... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4413196 | Three Josephson junction direct coupled isolation circuit A two branch, three Josephson junction gating circuit is provided with a plurality of inputs to enable the circuit to be operated as a high-gain logic OR gate. The circuit is arranged to provide a larger operating window area and to provide an improved an... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4413197 | Four Josephson junction direct-coupled and gate circuit A Josephson junction AND gate logic circuit is provided which has an enhanced and improved operating window area. The circuit comprises two parallel branches one for the input and one for the output connected between a biasing current source and a ground ... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4371796 | Josephson logic gate device A Josephson logic gate device comprises a closed loop of four Josephson junctions, a gate line and a ground line connected to the closed loop at symmetrically opposite points, and a control line connected to the closed loop at the intermediate joint betwe... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4334158 | Superconducting switch and amplifier device An amplifying or switching superconductive device is described whose current-voltage characteristic is drastically altered by heavy injection of excess energetic quasi-particles. In this device, the superconducting bandgap of a superconducting layer is gr... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4330841 | Logic circuit with asymmetrical quantum interferometric circuits A logic circuit having at least one asymmetrical quantum interferometric circuit, wherein the logic output states correspond to the voltage state of the asymmetrical quantum interferometric circuit, the asymmetrical quantum interferometric device comprise... | 05/18/1982 |
