IP Library Granted Patent US 7,376,691
Granted Patent B2
US 7,376,691 · App. 10/849,665 · Granted May 20, 2008

Arithmetic and logic unit using half adder

Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation University of Incheon
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Patent No.
US 7,376,691
App. No.
10/849,665
Granted
May 20, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention discloses an ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) that can be operated as an OR gate, an AND gate, an adder gate and an exclusive OR gate using a half adder that uses a superconductor rapid single flux quantum logic device. The ALU using a half adder includes a half adder using a superconductor rapid single flux quantum logic device as a logic circuit, and a switching unit that has input ports respectively connected to a sum output port and a carry output port of the half adder and is operated as an OR gate, an AND gate, an adder gate and an exclusive OR gate using output signals of the half adder. The switching unit includes a first switch having an input port connected to the sum output port of the half adder, a second switch having an input port connected to the carry output port of the half adder and an output port connected to an output port of the first switch, and a third switch having an input port connected to the carry output port of the half adder.

Claims (8)

1. An arithmetic and logic unit using a half adder, comprising:

a half adder using a superconductor rapid single flux quantum logic device as a logic circuit; and

a switching unit that has input ports each connected to a sum output port and a carry output port of the half adder and is operated as an OR gate, an AND gate, an adder gate and an exclusive OR gate using output signals of the half adder,

wherein the switching unit includes

a first switch having an input port connected to the sum output port of the half adder;

a second switch having an input port connected to the carry output port of the half adder and an output port connected to an output port of the first switch; and

a third switch having an input port connected to the carry output port of the half adder.

2. The arithmetic and logic unit as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first, second and third switches include Josephson junctions obtained by weakly combining two superconductors with each other.

Assignments (5)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 6, 2024
From: AVIDBANK
To: HYPRES, INC.
Reel/Frame 068348/0909 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 17, 2021
From: HYPRES, INC.
To: AVIDBANK
Reel/Frame 056617/0116 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 23, 2009
From: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF INCHEON
To: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF INCHEON; HYPRES, INC.
Reel/Frame 022990/0771 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2007
From: KOREA PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
To: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF INCHEON
Reel/Frame 020020/0012 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 13, 2004
From: JUNG, KU RAK; KANG, JUN HEE; KIRICHENKO, ALEX F.; SARWANA, SAAD
To: KOREA PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 015672/0839 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2004-0026148 · Apr 16, 2004 · national
Continuity (1)
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