A schematic overview of the microarchitectural components in the core device.
Real-time control software and hardware is essential for operating quantum computers. In particular, the software plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between quantum programs and the quantum system. Unfortunately, current control software is often optimized for a specific system at the cost of flexibility and portability. We propose a systematic design strategy for modular real-time quantum control software and demonstrate that modular control software can reduce the execution time overhead of kernels by 63.3% on average while not increasing the binary size. Our analysis shows that modular control software for two distinctly different systems can share between 49.8% and 91.0% of covered code statements. To demonstrate the modularity and portability of our software architecture, we run a portable randomized benchmarking experiment on two different ion-trap quantum systems. DOI 10.1109/QCE53715.2022.00077
Riesebos, Leon; Bondurant, Brad; Whitlow, Jacob; Kim, Junki; Kuzyk, Mark; Chen, Tianyi; Phiri, Samuel; Wang, Ye; Fang, Chao; Horn, Andrew Van; Kim, Jungsang; Brown, Kenneth R.
