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QHDL: a Low-Level Circuit Description Language for Quantum Computing

Emerging Technologies 2023-08-15 v1

Abstract

This paper proposes a descriptive language called QHDL, akin to VHDL, to program gate-based quantum computing systems. Unlike other popular quantum programming languages, QHDL targets low-level quantum computing programming and aims to provide a common framework for programming FPGAs and gate-based quantum computing systems. The paper presents an initial implementation and design principles of the QHDL framework, including a compiler and quantum computer simulator. We discuss the challenges of low-level integration of streaming models and quantum computing for programming FPGAs and gate-based quantum computing systems.

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@article{arxiv.2305.09419,
  title  = {QHDL: a Low-Level Circuit Description Language for Quantum Computing},
  author = {Gilbert Netzer and Stefano Markidis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09419},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

4 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, May 9-11, 2023, Bologna, Italy

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