Systems, methods and apparatus for digital-to-analog conversion of superconducting magnetic flux signals
AssigneeD-Wave Systems Inc.
InventorsPaul I. Bunyk, Felix Maibaum, Andrew J. Berkley, Thomas Mahon
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AssigneeD-Wave Systems Inc.
InventorsPaul I. Bunyk, Felix Maibaum, Andrew J. Berkley, Thomas Mahon
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A superconducting flux digital-to-analog converter includes a superconducting inductor ladder circuit. The ladder circuit includes a plurality of closed superconducting current paths that each includes at least two superconducting inductors coupled in series to form a respective superconducting loop, successively adjacent or neighboring superconducting loops are connected in parallel with each other and share at least one of the superconducting inductors to form a flux divider network. A data signal input structure provides a respective bit of a multiple bit signal to each of the superconducting loops. The data signal input structure may include a set of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). The data signal input structure may include a superconducting shift register, for example a single-flux quantum (SFQ) shift register or a flux-based superconducting shift register comprising a number of latching qubits.
A method of operation in a local control subsystem for programming the elements of a superconducting programmable device, the method comprising:
A superconducting programmable device comprising:
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