학술논문

QubiC: An Open-Source FPGA-Based Control and Measurement System for Superconducting Quantum Information Processors
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering IEEE Trans. Quantum Eng. Quantum Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. 2:1-11 2021
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Qubit
Field programmable gate arrays
Hardware
Quantum computing
Prototypes
Engineering software
field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
gateware
hardware
noisy intermediate-scale quantum
qubit control
Language
ISSN
2689-1808
Abstract
As quantum information processors grow in quantum bit (qubit) count and functionality, the control and measurement system becomes a limiting factor to large-scale extensibility. To tackle this challenge and keep pace with rapidly evolving classical control requirements, full control stack access is essential to system-level optimization. We design a modular field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based system called QubiC to control and measure a superconducting quantum processing unit. The system includes room temperature electronics hardware, FPGA gateware, and engineering software. A prototype hardware module is assembled from several commercial off-the-shelf evaluation boards and in-house-developed circuit boards. Gateware and software are designed to implement basic qubit control and measurement protocols. System functionality and performance are demonstrated by performing qubit chip characterization, gate optimization, and randomized benchmarking sequences on a superconducting quantum processor operating at the Advanced Quantum Testbed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The single-qubit and two-qubit process fidelities are measured to be 0.9980 $\pm$ 0.0001 and 0.948 $\pm$ 0.004, respectively, by randomized benchmarking. With fast circuit sequence loading capability, the QubiC performs randomized compiling experiments efficiently and improves the feasibility of executing more complex algorithms.