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Control Unit Micro-architecture

Nadia Nedjah, Luiza de Macedo Mourelle

Published Jan 5, 2023• 0 citations

Abstract

This chapter describes the micro-architecture of this unit and define the main control components required to implement the execution of the quantum micro-instructions. It discusses the tensor product controller, which controls the three main operations: tensor product of quantum bits; matrix product of quantum bits; tensor product of operators. The control unit UCO synchronizes the operation of the co-processor’s remaining components mainly using a micro-program together with some auxiliary components. Based on the instructions prescribed by the main processor, unit UCO will orchestrate the other components of the macro-architecture as well as its internal components by means of planned micro-orders and some specific controllers. The MPR address register is implemented as an up-counter with a preset option. Component QbTPCtrl controls the read/write addresses for memory MQB, the control records of memory MQC as well as the multiplexers and registers of unit UCA so as it can produce the requested tensor product.

DOI: 10.1201/9781003344094-8

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