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Physica C Superconductivity

Design and implementation of SFQ programmable clock generators

M. Ito, Nobuo Nakajima, K. Fujiwara, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Akira Fujimaki, Hirotaka Terai, Shinichi Yorozu

Published Jun 3, 2004• 22 citations
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10.1016/j.physc.2004.02.220

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