Recent Progress in Superconductive Digital Electronics
Part I - Western Contributions
(Overview of the Special Section of
IEICE Transactions on Electronics, vol. E91-C, No. 3, March 2008)

A. Y. Herr¹, O. Mukchanov², M. Nisenoff³, H. Rogalla⁴ and T. Van Duzer⁵

1. Chalmers University of Technology, Goeteborg, Sweden,
2. HYPRES, Inc., Elmsford, NY, USA,
3. Nisenoff Associates, Minneapolis, MN, USA
4. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands,
5. University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA

Abstract- This overview (Part I) contains highlights of articles contributed by western authors to the Special Section of IEICE Transactions on Electronics, vol. E91-C (March 2008).  Included are reflections on how to bring superconductive digital electronics (SDE) to the market place, a global overview of past, present and future of SDE, a view on SDE (termed fluxonics) and superconductive electronics effort in Europe, and two status reports: (1) on RSFQ (Rapid Single Flux Quantum) baseband digital processing for wireless telecommunication, and (2) on superconductor digital-RF receiver systems.  Conclusions endorsed by all authors summarize the status of SDE technology, and directions of work still needed for its technical and economic fruition.

Received June 18, 2008; accepted July 15, 2008.  Reference No. CR7-I; Category 4, 11.