ARTIQ and Sinara: Open Software and Hardware Stacks for Quantum Physics
Grzegorz H. Kasprowicz, Paweł Kulik, Michał Gąska, Tomasz Przywózki, Krzysztof T. Pozniak, Jakub Jarosiński, J. Britton, T. P. Harty, Christopher J. Ballance, Weida Zhang, D. P. Nadlinger, D. H. Slichter, D. T. C. Allcock, Sébastien Bourdeauducq, Robert Jördens, Krzysztof T. Pozniak
Sinara is a control system dedicated to quantum applications. It is based on industrial standards and consists of over 50 modules. The hardware is controlled by ARTIQ, which provides a high-level programming language.
The complexity of quantum experimentation setups generates demand for a hardware platform that ensures means of standardization of the equipment used as well as setup repeatability.Sinara Hardware is an open-source answer to those challenges. It offers a modular architecture and well over 50 different modules. While originating from ion trapping experiments, it provides an ecosystem that can meet a wide range of quantum experimentation needs. Accompanied by researchers and engineers from different universities and private companies, Sinara Hardware is not only a hardware platform but also a vibrant community.Sinara Hardware is developed along with an open-source control system - ARTIQ. ARTIQ provides a high-level programming interface along with experiment management tools. It offers nanosecond timing accuracy, sub-microsecond latency and means of timing distribution across several controller modules.This poster covers the developments from the last 2 years in the Sinara Hardware project. The most interesting novelties are: CERN Distributed IO Tier (DIOT) integration that will introduce backplane for communication and will enable use of DIOT Zynq UltraScale+ based controller; Artix-7 based FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) carrier along with two Sinara-dedicated FMCs: Shuttler - 125 MSPS 16 ch. 16-bit DAC (Digital to Analog Converter), with separate analog front end for application versatility and Waver - 1.5 GSPS 4 ch. 16-bit DAC; Unified Arbitrary Waveform Generator Framework as a common firmware platform for Sinara DAC applications as well as Xilinx RFSoC-based high bandwidth signal generator. Additionally, an overview of what is to be expected in future developments is shown.
Sinara, an open-source hardware ecosystem, has been designed to facilitate quantum experiments' efficient man-agement. Abiding by the CERN Open Hardware License, Sinara comprises over 50 modules, most of which are commercially available, representing a broad spectrum of capabilities. A crucial element of Sinara is its integration with the Advanced Real-Time Infrastructure for Quantum physics (ARTIQ) control system. This combination provides researchers with a robust toolkit with capabilities such as 1 ns timing resolution. It also includes a comprehensive suite of tools designed to manage experiment scheduling, versioning, results storage, and hardware management, enhancing the efficiency of quantum experiment workflows. The poster presents proposed development of Sinara based control system for a commercially available ion trap solution, with a systematic strategy to replace components of the control system with Sinara modules. This method affords valuable hands-on experience that will help in the design of future modules and the enhancement of existing ones. Proposed Sinara control system is to be made up of several subsystems, including high voltage controls, electrical controls, shuttling and readout, and laser controls. Each subsystem is managed through a PC and operated via ARTIQ or MQTT protocol, providing a structured framework for management. The subsystems utilize several advanced hardware components, including the Kasli v2 controller, Shuttler DAC, and DIOT STM Controller, among others.
The Sinara hardware platform is a modular, opensource measurement and control system dedicated to quantum applications that require hard real-time performance. The hardware is controlled and managed by the ARTIQ, open-source software that provides nanosecond timing resolution and submicrosecond latency. The Sampler is a general-purpose precision ADC sampling unit with programmable gain and configurable interface. It is used in numerous applications like laser frequency and intensity servo. This paper presents the Sampler module construction and obtained characteristics.
We introduce isQ, a new software stack for quantum programming in an imperative programming language, also named isQ. The aim of isQ is to make the programmers write quantum programs as conveniently as possible. In particular: 1) The isQ language and its compiler contain many features, including some not well supported by (most) other quantum programming platforms, e.g. classical control flow such as recursion; decomposition of selfdefined unitary gates; and oracle programming and its circuit realization. 2) To make it flexible, an isQ program can be compiled into several kinds of intermediate representation, including OpenQASM 3.0, QIR and QCIS (specially tailored for the superconducting quantum hardware at USTC). 3) Besides interfacing isQ with true superconducting hardware, a QIR simulator is also developed for demonstration and testing of isQ programs.
Trapping ions, performing qubit operations and quantum multi-qubit gates require complex pulse spectra on several frequency bands. The Smart Arbitrary Waveform Generators (SAWG) Sayma and Phaser are designed to trap control and generate the Short-time Fourier transform (STFT) pulses. They have quad channels of over 1.2 GS/s (Giga Samples per second) 16-bit DACs and a few MS/s (Mega Samples per second) ADCs. These modules are dedicated to implementing qubit operations, both optically and electronically. The Sayma and Phaser modules are part of the Sinara family - a modular, open-source measurement and control hardware ecosystem dedicated to quantum applications that require deterministic high-resolution timing. The hardware is controlled and managed by the ARTIQ open-source software platform, which provides nanosecond timing resolution and sub-microsecond latency via a high-level programming language. We present the Sayma and the Phaser construction and obtained characteristics.
We introduce isQ, a new software stack for quantum programming in an imperative programming language, also named isQ. The aim of isQ is to make programmers write quantum programs as conveniently as possible. In particular:1)The isQ language and its compiler contain many useful features, including but not limited to: classical control flow, such as recursion; decomposition of self-defined unitary gates; and oracle programming and its circuit realization.2)To make it flexible, an isQ program can be compiled into several different kinds of intermediate representation and assemblies, including QIR, eQASM, OpenQASM 3.0, and QCIS (specially tailored for the superconducting quantum hardware at USTC).3)Besides interfacing isQ with real superconducting hardware, a QIR simulator is also developed for the demonstration and testing of isQ programs.isQ software stack encompasses abundant compiler optimizations of high-level quantum programs. To realize it, a distinct MLIR dialect name isQ-IR is proposed.