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SCE Futures

SCE Futures builds a working vocabulary for superconducting electronics and then asks you to use it: explain the mechanism, read the evidence, perform the calculation, and identify what a device result does—or does not—say about a complete system.

Lectures

  1. Why Superconducting Electronics? - Executive overview

Part I: Foundations

  1. Introduction to Superconductivity - Fundamentals of superconductivity
  2. Materials & Properties - Superconducting materials and their characteristics
  3. Josephson Junctions - The building blocks of superconducting circuits

Part II: Devices & Circuits

  1. Analog Devices - SQUIDs, amplifiers, and sensors
  2. Digital Logic - AQFP logic and standard cells
  3. Memory & Storage - Superconducting memory technologies
  4. Circuit Design & Integration - Design flows and integration
  5. Fabrication - Manufacturing superconducting circuits

Part III: Systems Integration

  1. Packaging & I/O - Chip carriers, bonding, wiring, interconnects
  2. Cryogenic Systems - Cryostats, helium management, and safety 11A. Testing - Test methodology, margins, grounding, and measurement practice 11B. Test Equipment & Vendor Guide - Requirement-driven equipment selection and examples

Part IV: Applications

  1. Classical Applications - High-performance computing and beyond
  2. AI Workloads & Dataflow - Understanding modern ML workloads
  3. SCE Accelerator Architecture - Hardware architecture for AI acceleration

Getting Started

To run the notebooks locally, clone the repository and install the dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/Adiabatic-Machines/sce-futures.git
cd sce-futures
python -m pip install -r notebooks/requirements.txt
jupyter lab

Start with Lecture 0 and follow the in-lecture previous/next links. To render the published course without executing notebook code, install requirements-docs.txt and run python -m mkdocs serve.