Related: "Automatic Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Logic Synthesis Method for Top-Down Circuit Design" https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/43/1/28

Related: "Automatic Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Logic Synthesis Method for Top-Down Circuit Design" https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/43/1/287/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/43/1/28... >"Abstract. Single-flux-quantum (SFQ) logic circuits provide faster operations with lower power consumption, using Josephson junctions as the switching devices. In the top-down flow of SFQ circuit design, we have already developed a place-and-route tool that covers backend circuit design. In this paper, we present an automatic SFQ logic synthesis method that covers front-end circuit design. The logic synthesis is a process that generates a gate-level logic circuit from a functional specification written in hardware description languages. In our SFQ synthesis method, after we generate an intermediate circuit with the help of a synthesis tool for semiconductor circuits, we convert it into a gate-level pipelined SFQ circuit. To do this, an automatic synthesis tool was implemented." PDS: Phrased another way, the idea here can basically be boiled down to: For the most time-critical parts of a conventional CPU, i.e., the Adder/ALU -- instead of using conventional circuitry for that, let's use circuits specifically designed for Quantum Computers because of their fast switching speed... The end result is that you still get a conventional digital CPU -- albeit, in theory, a much, much faster one... The "magic phrase" (for research) for all of this -- is Single-flux-quantum (SFQ) logic circuits...