A Microarchitecture for a Superconducting Quantum Processor
X. Fu (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - Computer Engineering)
M.A. Rol (Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QCD/DiCarlo Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)
C.C. Bultink (Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QCD/DiCarlo Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)
J. van Someren (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - Computer Engineering, TU Delft - FTQC/Bertels Lab)
N. Khammassi (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - FTQC/Bertels Lab)
I. Ashraf (TU Delft - FTQC/Bertels Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)
R.F.L. Vermeulen (TU Delft - ALG/General, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft)
J.C. Sterk (Topic Embedded Systems B.V., TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)
W. Vlothuizen (TU Delft - BUS/General, TNO, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)
Raymond Schouten (TU Delft - ALG/General, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)
C. García Almudever (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - Computer Engineering)
L. di Carlo (TU Delft - QCD/DiCarlo Lab, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QN/DiCarlo Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)
K. Bertels (TU Delft - FTQC/Bertels Lab, TU Delft - Quantum & Computer Engineering, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)
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Abstract
This article proposes a quantum microarchitecture, QuMA. Flexible programmability of a quantum processor is achieved by multilevel instructions decoding, abstracting analog control into digital control, and translating instruction execution with non-deterministic timing into event trigger with precise timing. QuMA is validated by several single-qubit experiments on a superconducting qubit.