Effects of parasitic capacitance in a magnetically-coupled voltage multipli
er (VM) are described. We found that parasitic capacitance between SQUIDs a
nd JTLs in a VM decreases its operating margin. We also found that separati
on of electric grounds for the output terminal of a VM from those for the J
TLs is effective to improve the operating margin. Using this method, a 64-s
tage VM was fabricated and well-defined output voltage was obtained.