A superconductive flash digitizer with on-chip memory

The design, manufacture and subsequent testing of a superconductive flash digitizer circuit utilizing niobium trilayer technology is presented. The device will be used in recording transient physical phenomena such as electromagnetic pulses. The superconductive flash digitizer is composed of a 6-bit flash analog-to-digital converter, on-chip switches for data acquisition control and a bank of acquisition shift-registers for on-chip memory.