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IEEE International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME)

New FPGA design solution using quantum computation concepts

Alin Gheorghita Mazare, Laurenţiu Mihai Ionescu, Ioan Lita, Gheorghe Şerban, Nadia Belu

Published Oct 27, 2021• 3 citations

Abstract

Quantum computer emulators implemented on FPGA are generally designed to illustrate possible applications in which these concepts can be used - as a method of functional testing of possible applications involving quantum computing. In this paper we try to present another possible use of a quantum computation emulator, proposed by the authors, for the synthesis of circuits in FPGA with superior performance to conventional or parallel design methods. The paper presents a synthesis solution of parallel structures based on concepts from quantum computation emulated on FPGA. As will be seen in the paper, using the solution improves the computation time compared to the conventional method and reduces the number of resources allocated compared to the parallel solution. So, the solution which we propose is somewhere between conventional sequential logic circuit design methods - it has a shorter response time than these and parallel circuit design methods - it provides a smaller number of resources than these. In order to show the advantages of the proposed solution, we presented the implementation of a circuit for determining the parity of a binary function. The solution was implemented using the conventional solution, the parallel solution and the proposed solution using quantum computing concepts. It will show the performance of the proposed solution compared to the other design models.

DOI: 10.1109/siitme53254.2021.9663653

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