Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for scalable qubit addressing
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Application No.: US16144887Application Date: 2018-09-27
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Publication No.: US11531922B2Publication Date: 2022-12-20
- Inventor: Xiang Zou
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/30
- IPC: G06F9/30 ; G06N10/00 ; G06F15/16 ; G06N20/00

Abstract:
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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190042971A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE QUBIT ADDRESSING Public/Granted day:2019-02-07
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