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The QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit): Readout and control for qubits and detectors

Oct 1, 2021

14 pages

Published in:

Rev.Sci.Instrum. 93 (2022) 4, 044709

Published: Apr 26, 2022

e-Print:

2110.00557 [quant-ph]

DOI:

10.1063/5.0076249

Report number:

FERMILAB-PUB-21-472-SCD

Experiments:

QICK

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Abstract: (AIP)

We introduce a Xilinx RF System-on-Chip (RFSoC)-based qubit controller (called the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit, or QICK for short), which supports the direct synthesis of control pulses with carrier frequencies of up to 6 GHz. The QICK can control multiple qubits or other quantum devices. The QICK consists of a digital board hosting an RFSoC field-programmable gate array, custom firmware, and software and an optional companion custom-designed analog front-end board. We characterize the analog performance of the system as well as its digital latency, important for quantum error correction and feedback protocols. We benchmark the controller by performing standard characterizations of a transmon qubit. We achieve an average gate fidelity of Favg=99.93%. All of the schematics, firmware, and software are open-source.

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