Reconfigurable Superconducting FFT Processor Using Bit-Slice Block Share Processing Unit

Abstract

We have proposed a reconfigurable high speed and very economical Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) superconducting logic design based on the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) Processor. We have designed a 256 – point FFT processor with the help of a bit-slicing block sharing unit. RSFQ is one of the superconducting device logics comprises of Josephson Junction. The computation complexity of this superconducting FFT is less when the number of points increased. We have proposed three different designs depending on the split radix FFT, the bit-serial radix 2 FFT, and the mixed radix FFT algorithms. The proposed design will slice the 256 – point FFT into eight 32 – point FFT each and each 32 – point FFT is divided into eight 4 – point FFT each for the reduction in hardware cost. For complex multiplication, the computation complexity of our design will be less than N/2 Log2 N for the radix 2 algorithm based on the Block share processing Unit (BSPU) and further, it is reduced for split radix & mixed radix algorithms based on BSPU based RSFQ logic. Due to this, the speed of the processor is improvised compared to general FFT algorithm based semiconductor technology. we have computed and calculated the latency at 10 GHz for our designs. The main aim of this proposed design is to reduce the complex computation time and better performance of the processor with less hardware cost. This proposed design can furthermore continue to several N2 – point by using synchronous clock tree.