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Flux linkage difference in the new joule balance can be obtained by the time integration of the induced voltage u(t) from the suspended coil relative to a moving magnet driven by a dc motor translation platform. Due to the finite acceleration of the dc motor, the transition and waveform of u(t) are finite and not regular. To accurately measure the time integration of u(t), a compensation waveform with precision time integration should be synthesized. In this paper, a stepwise compensation waveform is synthesized by a programmable Josephson voltage standard (PJVS) according to u(t). The accuracy of measuring the stepwise waveform with multiple transitions can be improved by reducing the ratio of the time integrated value of the total transitions to the total waveform less than one part in 102 in the joule balance. The time integration of the rise/fall transition is measured by a synchronized reference square wave generated by another PJVS system. With the total time integration more than 20 Vs, the uncertainty of the generated stepwise waveform is within 5.2 × 10−8 VsV−1s−1. The result confirms that the PJVS has the capability to generate a stepwise compensation voltage for flux linkage difference measurement.