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Autocorrelator Design Based on a Circular Shift Register [49]

  In this chapter, we describe another design of an RSFQ all-digital one-bit autocorrelator for submillimeter spectrometry applications, featuring 4 GHz input signal bandwidth, double oversampling quantizer, and 16 Mbps-per-channel output rate. The delay line of the autocorrelator is based on a circular shift register with XOR gates performing multiplication of the delayed and undelayed single-bit signals at every stage. The multiplication results are accumulated by room-temperature electronics after being prescaled in on-chip binary counters consisting of 10 T flip-flops per stage. We report results of experimental testing of a 16-stage autocorrelator delay line with multiplication and for a linear array of 8 low-power T flip-flop binary counters, all fabricated in HYPRES' standard tex2html_wrap_inline1503 - tex2html_wrap_inline1505 tex2html_wrap_inline1507 - tex2html_wrap_inline1509 Nb-trilayer process.





Alexander Rylyakov
Fri May 23 18:57:25 EDT 1997