Superconducting analog-to-digital converter with floating four-j

Details Superconducting analog-to-digital converter with floating four-j Superconducting analog-to-digital converter with floating four-j

1989-08-24

1991-04-30

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Coded data generation or conversion

Analog to or from digital conversion

With particular solid state devices

307277, 307476, 341171, 505827, H03M 100, H03M 120, H03K 300

Patent

active

050122436

ABSTRACT:
A high-speed, high-resolution superconducting counting A/D converter providing greatly increased conversion speeds with a low device count. The superconducting counting A/D converter includes includes a double-junction SQUID quantizer and a bidirectional binary counter having n stages of floating four-junction SQUID flip-flops, where n is the number of bits of accuracy of the counter. The quantizer continuously tracks an analog signal, generating up-count and down-count voltage pulses of the same polarity on two different output lines for increasing and decreasing values of the analog current, respectively. The bidirectional binary counter algebraically counts the voltage pulses, increasing the binary count when up-count pulses are received and decreasing the binary count when down-count pulses are received. Several techniques for reading the contents of the bidirectional binary counter at the end of each sampling interval are also disclosed.

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