Superconducting Quantum Amplifier-Integrator in Ultra-High Speed Continuous-time Delta-Sigma Converter
Present semiconductor research is increasingly focusing on either higher speeds or higher linearity or both. Applications range from consumer, industrial, healthcare and military. Typically such circuits are fabricated in today's low-voltage CMOS processes using silicon and in few cases BJT-CMOS combined like Gallium-Arsenide or Indium-Phosphide. These technology nodes face a plethora of problems like reduction of dynamic range of the circuit due to mismatch, distortion, noise, thermal and electromigration issues due to excessive currents, etc. Compounding these problems is the issue with lower achievable gain from an amplifier which often gets limited due to lower supply voltages in such technology nodes. Slowly circuit techniques like chopping, cascoding, cascading and calibration are nearing their limits. In this paper we present a radically different approach to our regular analog design building blocks using macroscopic quantum effects which have hitherto not found favour with the design community. We will solely focus on the effect of superconductivity and adopting its macroscopic phenomena to amplifiers, integrators and comparators. Using staggered superconductors we can achieve a gain which depends only on physical quantum constants and remains invariant under process, temperature, supply, interference, etc. This robustness of gain in an amplifier goes a long way in attaining higher linearity. The comparator can resolve a minimum of 2.07fT magnetic flux but when embedded inside a Delta-Sigma loop can typically attain 100 times smaller resolution pushing the boundaries of sensing.
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