A Microarchitecture for a Superconducting Quantum Processor
Xiang Fu, M. A. Rol, Cornelis Christiaan Bultink, J. van Someren, Naziha Khammassi, Imran Ashraf, R. F. L. Vermeulen, J. C. de Sterke, Wouter Vlothuizen, Raymond N. Schouten, Carmen G. Almudéver, L. DiCarlo, Koen Bertels · IEEE Micro · 2018
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.