US Patent Application 18231917. APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE QUBIT ADDRESSING simplified abstract

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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE QUBIT ADDRESSING

Organization Name

Intel Corporation

Inventor(s)

Xiang Zou of Hillsboro OR (US)

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE QUBIT ADDRESSING - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18231917 titled 'APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE QUBIT ADDRESSING

Simplified Explanation

The patent application describes an apparatus and method for scalable qubit addressing in a quantum processor.

  • The processor includes a decoder that decodes quantum instructions and non-quantum instructions.
  • The execution circuitry includes an address generation unit (AGU) that generates a system memory address based on non-quantum instructions.
  • The execution circuitry also includes quantum index generation circuitry that generates quantum index values, which uniquely identify qubits in the quantum processor.
  • To generate a quantum index value, the quantum index generation circuitry reads the value from an architectural register identified by the quantum instruction.


Original Abstract Submitted

An apparatus and method for scalable qubit addressing. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a decoder comprising quantum instruction decode circuitry to decode quantum instructions to generate quantum microoperations (uops) and non-quantum decode circuitry to decode non-quantum instructions to generate non-quantum uops; execution circuitry comprising: an address generation unit (AGU) to generate a system memory address responsive to execution of one or more of the non-quantum uops; and quantum index generation circuitry to generate quantum index values responsive to execution of one or more of the quantum uops, each quantum index value uniquely identifying a quantum bit (qubit) in a quantum processor; wherein to generate a first quantum index value for a first quantum uop, the quantum index generation circuitry is to read the first quantum index value from a first architectural register identified by the first quantum uop.

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