Functional Simulation of Real-Time Quantum Control Software

TL;DR

This paper presents an interactive simulator for real-time quantum control software that significantly speeds up testing and offers high accuracy in simulating signal timelines, addressing current testing challenges.

Contribution

The authors developed a simulation infrastructure that operates at the API level, enabling faster and more practical testing of complex quantum control software.

Findings

Simulator is 6.9 times faster than hardware execution.

Achieves 97.9% accuracy in timeline position simulation.

Facilitates more efficient testing of real-time quantum control software.

Abstract

Modern quantum computers rely heavily on real-time control systems for operation. Software for these systems is becoming increasingly more complex due to the demand for more features and more real-time devices to control. Unfortunately, testing real-time control software is often a complex process, and existing simulation software is not usable or practical for software testing. For this purpose, we implemented an interactive simulator that simulates signals at the application programming interface level. We show that our simulation infrastructure simulates kernels 6.9 times faster on average compared to execution on hardware, while the position of the timeline cursor is simulated with an average accuracy of 97.9% when choosing the appropriate configuration.