Abstract

In five and a half years, the ColdFlux project under the IARPA SuperTools program pushed the boundaries of digital and analog superconductor electronic design automation (S-EDA) tools. The SuperTools program demanded significant beyond-state-of-the-art deliverables in four main areas: RTL synthesis, architectures, and verification; analog design and layout synthesis; physical design and test; and technology CAD and cell library design. Through the work of academic groups scattered over four continents, the ColdFlux effort forged into a powerful set of open-source and commercial S-EDA tools unlike any before, rivaled only by a commercial toolchain from Synopsys under the same SuperTools umbrella. We present an overview of the tools from where we started to the eventual project deliverables. These include powerful simulation and extraction engines, magnetic field and flux trapping analysis, advanced …

Metadata

publication

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 33 (8), 1-26, 2023

year

2023

publication date

2023/8/18

authors

Coenrad J Fourie, Kyle Jackman, Johannes Delport, Lieze Schindler, Tessa Hall, Pascal Febvre, Lucas Iwanikow, Olivia Chen, Christopher L Ayala, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Mark Law, Thomas A Weingartner, Yanzhi Wang, Peter Beerel, Sandeep Gupta, Haipeng Zha, Sasan Razmkhah, Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu, Arash Fayyazi, Mingye Li, Murali Annavaram, Shahin Nazarian, Massoud Pedram

link

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10224066/

resource_link

https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-04872216/file/IEEE_TAS___ColdFlux_results.pdf

journal

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

volume

33

issue

8

pages

1-26

publisher

IEEE