Designing a DDS-Based SoC for High-Fidelity Multi-Qubit Control

Jeroen P.G. Van Dijk*, Bishnu Patra, Stefano Pellerano, Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano, Masoud Babaie

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Abstract

The design of a large-scale quantum computer requires co-optimization of both the quantum bits (qubits) and their control electronics. This work presents the first systematic design of such a controller to simultaneously and accurately manipulate the states of multiple spin qubits or transmons. By employing both analytical and simulation techniques, the detailed electrical specifications of the controller have been derived for a single-qubit gate fidelity of 99.99% and validated using a qubit Hamiltonian simulator. Trade-offs between several architectures with different levels of digitization are discussed, resulting in the selection of a highly digital DDS-based solution. Initiating from the system specifications, a complete error budget for the various analog and digital circuit blocks is drafted and their detailed electrical specifications, such as signal power, linearity, spurs and noise, are derived to obtain a digital-intensive power-optimized multi-qubit controller. A power consumption estimate demonstrates the feasibility of such a system in a nanometer CMOS technology node. Finally, application examples, including qubit calibration and multi-qubit excitation, are simulated with the proposed controller to demonstrate its efficacy. The proposed methodology, and more specifically, the proposed error budget lay the foundations for the design of a scalable electronic controller enabling large-scale quantum computers with practical applications.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9189938
Pages (from-to)5380-5393
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Volume67
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Direct digital synthesis (DDS)
  • fidelity
  • frequency division multiplexing
  • quantum computing
  • qubit control
  • specifications

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