Changelog

Unreleased

Breaking changes

  • Visualization - Deprecate visualization module and its functions circuit_diagram_matplotlib, pulse_diagram_matplotlib, and pulse_diagram_plotly. Create _visualization submodule within schedules. Make plots via ScheduleBase methods (!599). Move visualization tests to schedules directory, and make tests for ScheduleBase plotting methods

Merged branches and closed issue

  • Compilation - Add determine_relative_latencies that determines latencies for all port-clock combinations in the hardware config relative to the minimum latency (!566, #379)

0.11.1 (2023-02-07)

Breaking changes

  • Qblox backend - "input_att" can be the property of "complex_input_0" and "complex_output_0", but not both at the same time for QRM-RF (!596, !597)

0.11.0 (2023-02-03)

For help in migrating from deprecated methods, see Quantify Deprecated Code Suggestions.

Breaking changes

  • Installation - Instead of requirements.txt and requirements_dev.txt quantify-scheduler uses optional requirements. Use pip install "quantify-scheduler[dev]" to install all of them. (!592)

  • Compilation - Raise error upon clock being used in operation that was not added as resource to the schedule or device configuration (!538)

  • Qblox ICCs - Replace "acq_mapping" by "trace_acq_channel" in the compiled schedule (!515)

  • Qblox backend - Replace "input_gain<n>" by "input_gain_<n>" and "input_att" is the property of "complex_input" (!585)

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Acquisition - Data obtained with TriggerCount acquisition is formatted correctly (!530).

  • Acquisition - Fix wrong assumption in input format (!564, follow-up for !530).

  • Acquisition - Raise an exception if user tries to use same acquisition index and channel for different operations, and only extract data from used modules (!573)

  • Compilation - Can optionally provide a QuantumDevice to QuantifyCompiler. This will be used as default CompilationConfig in QuantifyCompiler.compile() (!535)

  • Compilation - Fix clock not being added to schedule from quantum device layer via new graph node set_pulse_and_acquisition_clock that verifies and sets clock frequency (!538, #371)

  • Deprecation - Refactored tests to remove deprecated qcompile, refactored to SerialCompiler (!529, #368)

  • Documentation - Sphinx build now compatible with qcodes==0.36.0 (!552)

  • Documentation - Removed deprecated code from the Compiling to Hardware Tutorial (!582)

  • NV centers - Avoid python warning when parsing docstring in nv_element.py (!562)

  • NV centers - Dark ESR schedule combining all prior operations (!527)

  • NV centers - BasicElectronicNVElement parameters accept physics-motivated values (!551)

  • Qblox backend - Add preparation of acquisition settings and accompanying datastructures for NV centers (!567)

  • Qblox backend - Add TriggerCount to QRMAcquisitionManager (!556)

  • Qblox backend - Added method for gain configuration, overriding gain now raises ValueError (!533)

  • Qblox backend - Provide sequencer setting to reset AWG offset and AWG gain to a known value (default 0 for offset and 1 for gain) before starting experiment (!544, #377)

  • Qblox backend - Remove mix_lo from SequencerSettings (!896)

  • Qblox backend - Typecast attenuations to ints before assigning them (!570)

  • QuantumDevice - BasicTransmonElement can now be serialized to json string and deserialized via __getstate__/__init__ (!510)

  • Schedule Functions - Make experiment-related schedule functions available in quantify_scheduler.schedules (!572)

  • Tests - Removed unused lo0 and added ttl_acq_threshold in qblox_test_mapping_nv_centers.json so that TestNVDarkESRSched suite passes (!579, follow-up to !571)

  • Visualization - Make box separation in circuit_diagram_matplotlib always equal to one (!589)

  • Waveforms - Fix sudden_net_zero waveform generation function misunderstands amp_B (!549, #390)

0.10.1 (2022-12-20)

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Compilation - Reinstate add_pulse_information_transmon device compilation backend (removed in !526) (!557)

  • Qblox backend - Drop no key "distortion_corrections" supplied log message level to debug (!560)

0.10.0 (2022-12-15)

Breaking changes

  • Deprecation - add_pulse_information_transmon is removed and device_config must now be of type DeviceCompilationConfig (!526)

  • Qblox backend - Strictly requires v0.8.x of the qblox-instruments package (!512)

  • Qblox backend, Operations - The phase of the measurement clock is set to zero at the start of each measurement by default (!434, #296)

  • Qblox backend - QRMAcquisitionManager now truncates returned acquisitions to actual lengths (!478)

  • Qblox backend - mix_lo flag now specifies if IQ mixing should be applied to LO (!482)

  • Operations - ShiftClockPhase now uses phase_shift as keyword instead of phase (!434)

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Deprecation - Replaced DeprecationWarnings with FutureWarnings so they are shown to end-users by default (!536, counterpart to quantify-core!411)

  • Deprecation - Remove code and test dependencies on deprecated data keyword in Operations (!545, #381)

  • Documentation - Instrument naming requirements in qblox hardware config (!531)

  • Documentation - Make class __init__ docstring visible on Sphinx (!541, #314)

  • Documentation - Improve parameter documentation for DeviceElements (!493)

  • Documentation - Building sphinx documentation will now raise an error if one of the code cells fails to run (!514)

  • Gate Library - Added Deprecation Warning for acq_channel Keyword in Measure (!491)

  • Git - Changed git merge strategy to “union” for CHANGELOG.md and AUTHORS.md to reduce amount of merge conflicts (!495)

  • Instrument Coordinator - Check if a parameter cache is valid before lazy setting (!505, #351)

  • Instrument Coordinator - Changed argument of GenericInstrumentCoordinatorComponent from name to instrument_reference. (!497)

  • NV centers - First operation SpectroscopyOperation with compilation for Qblox hardware (!471)

  • NV centers - Reset operation with compilation for Qblox hardware (!485)

  • NV centers - Measure operation using TriggerCount acquisition; only device compilation so far (!490)

  • NV centers - ChargeReset operation only device compilation so far (!496)

  • NV centers - CRCount operation using TriggerCount acquisition; only device compilation so far (!502)

  • Qblox backend - Introduce "sequence_to_file" param in qblox hardware config to allow skipping writing sequence json files to disk (#108, !438)

  • Qblox backend - Minor adjustments to NcoPhaseShiftStrategy to make compilation of ShiftClockPhase compatible with qblox-instruments==0.8.0 (!481)

  • Qblox backend - QbloxInstrumentCoordinatorComponentBase accepts both InstrumentModule and InstrumentChannel as instrument reference to cluster module (!508)

  • Qblox backend - Explicit error message when trying to do acquisitions on a QCM (!519)

  • Qblox backend - Renamed output_mode to io_mode in get_operation_strategy (!497)

  • Qblox backend - Added TriggerCountAcquisitionStrategy to acquisitions, generating the Q1ASM commands. (!540)

  • Tests - Refactored tests to remove duplicated temp_dir setup, and only use tmp_test_data_dir fixture (#370, !525)

  • Tests - Update tests to use mock_setup_basic_transmon_with_standard_params where needed (#369, !522)

  • Tests - Tests refactoring, move to mock_setup_basic_transmon_with_standard_params and replace qcompile by SerialCompiler (!516)

  • Validation - Replaced most of the asserts with raising proper exceptions so that they are raised in production environment too (#342, !499)

  • Visualization - Updated pulse_diagram_matplotlib to be compatible with future quantify-core release (!517)

  • Visualization - Show clock name in plotly pulse diagram (!547)

0.9.0 (2022-10-06)

Breaking changes

  • Deprecated methods removed:

    • QuantumDevice

      • components -> elements

      • get_component -> get_element

      • add_component -> add_element

      • remove_component -> remove_element

    • ScheduleBase

      • plot_circuit_diagram_mpl -> plot_circuit_diagram

      • plot_pulse_diagram_mpl -> plot_pulse_diagram

  • Compilation - Compilation is now a graph. (#305, !407)

  • Operations - Allow moving to qcodes >=0.34 (#300, !473)

    • Disallow "_" in DeviceElement names to comply with qcodes version 0.34

    • Enforces "_" as the separator between device elements in Edge names

    • Note: We are still on qcodes 0.33 due to pin in quantify-core package requirements

  • Operations, Resources, and Schedulables - Deprecate the use of the data argument (!455)

  • Qblox ICCs - Hotfix for storing scope acquisition (broken by !432) (!470)

  • Qblox ICCs - Only activate markers and LOs of used outputs to prevent noise (!474)

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Docs - Support for myst-nb added (#301, !407)

  • Docs - Sources are converted from restructured text format to MyST markdown. (!452)

  • Docs - Add pin on nbclient<0.6 for Read-the-Docs to build; Remove various old temp requirement pins (!477)

  • Docs - Added documentation and unit tests for the Rxy, X, X90, Y and Y90 unitaries (#349)

  • Gettables - Added a ProfiledScheduleGettable for profiling execution times of schedule steps. (!420, !469)

    • Please note: Setup in need of refactoring so interface is subject to change (see #320)

  • Instrument Coordinator - Small fix for search_settable_param when scheduler is searching for qcodes parameters (!461)

  • JSON utilities - Remove repr based serialization/deserialization methods (!445, #248)

  • JSON utilities - Extend the capabilities of the __getstate__/__setstate__ json serializer (!445, #248)

  • Qblox ICCs - Added input/output gain/attenuation configurable hardware parameter (!458)

  • Structure - Pydantic-based model is now used to validate latency corrections. (!467, #333)

  • Zhinst backend - Raise a more understandable exception when compiling an acquisition with larger than allowed duration (!407).

0.8.0 Support for two qubit operations and basic CZ-gate implementation (2022-08-10)

Breaking changes

  • Operations - Pin qcodes package to <0.34.0 due to breaking Edge naming (#300, !409)

  • Qblox backend - Sequencers are now dynamically allocated. The hardware config file schema was changed. (!328)

  • Qblox backend - Strictly requires v0.7.x of the qblox-instruments package (!449)

  • Zhinst backend - Strictly requires v21.8.20515 of the zhinst package (!387)

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Compilation - Added acq_protocol optional parameter to the Measure gate. (!386)

  • Compilation - Call determine_absolute_timing in qcompile when no device_cfg supplied. (!436)

  • Compilation - Decrease test usage of deprecated transmon_test_config.json / add_pulse_information_transmon (!450)

  • DRAG Pulse - Removed an extra G_amp factor from the Q component (derivative pulse). (#298, !406)

  • Docs - Fix API reference pages on read-the-docs (#303, !413)

  • Docs - Pin sphinx to 5.0.2 due to crash in napoleon (!437)

  • Docs - Unpin sphinx >=5.1.1 (!445)

  • Docs - Fix jsonschemas not rendered on read-the-docs (!448)

  • Docs - Clarify port and clock concepts (!431)

  • Docs - New scheduler tutorials: Schedules and Pulses; Compiling to Hardware; Operations and Qubits (!336, !439)

  • Gettables - Added generate_diagnostics_report method to save the internal state of ScheduleGettable to a zip-file. (!408)

  • Helpers - Moved MockLocalOscillator definition from tests to helpers.mock_instruments.MockLocalOscillator (!392, !336).

  • JSON utilities - Add JSON serialization/deserialization methods based on __getstate__/__setstate__ (!444)

  • Operations - Added a symmetric key in the gate_info to flag symmetric operations. (!389)

  • Operations - Introduce basic CZ-gate via CompositeSquareEdge (utilizing quantify_scheduler.operations.pulse_factories.composite_square_pulse) (!411)

    • Replaces the incomplete SuddenNetZeroEdge basic CZ-gate implementation

  • Operations - Rxy theta rotations now fall into the domain of [-180 to 180) degrees. (!433)

  • QuantumDevice - Added implementation for edges in the quantum device config in order to support two qubit operations. (!389)

    • The Edge has been added as an abstract base class for edges to be added to a device.

  • Qblox backend - Only add clocks to the schedule that are actually being used, avoids trying to assign frequencies for unused clocks (#278, !371)

  • Qblox backend - Fix for supplying negative NCO phase (!393)

  • Qblox backend - Fix compilation of ShiftClockPhase (!404, broken by merge of !328)

  • Qblox backend - Fix for outputting signals on even output paths of qblox hardware in real_output_x mode (!397)

  • Qblox backend - Make Qblox backend compatible with generic downconverter values in hardware_config (!418)

  • Qblox backend - Fix for 90 degree phase shift on even output paths as a result of the !397 hotfix. (!412)

  • Qblox backend - Fix cluster compatibility when converting old hwconfig to new specs (!419)

  • Qblox backend - Latency corrections must now be defined in top layer of hw config (!400)

  • Qblox backend - Fix combination of cluster and latency corrections when converting hw_configs to new specs (!417)

  • Qblox backend - Fix handling of composite pulses (#299, !411)

  • Qblox backend - Implementation of distortion correction (#285, !388)

  • Qblox backend - Fix incompatibility of distortion_correction parameters as numpy arrays (!426)

  • Qblox backend - Remove all references to the inactive line_gain_db param (!435)

  • Qblox ICCs - Fix for setting scope_acq_sequencer_select for QRM and QRM-RF (!432, !441)

  • Qblox ICCs - Fix ClusterComponent.prepare mutating the schedule (!443)

  • Schedules - Revert rename of trace_schedule done in !432 and rename new schedule using gates to trace_schedule_circuit_layer (!442)

  • Schedules - Make AcquisitionMetadata a serializable class (!446)

0.7.0 Support for qblox-instruments v0.6.0, new BasicTransmonElement, change for triggers in Zhinst backend (2022-04-11)

Breaking changes

Merged branches and closed issues

  • QuantumDevice - The DeviceElement has been added as an abstract base class for elements to be added to a device (#148, !374).

  • QuantumDevice - The BasicTransmonElement has been added that generates a device config in a more structured manner (#246, !374).

  • QuantumDevice - Fixed a bug in the BasicTransmonElement where operations had clock-frequencies (float) specified instead of clocks (str) (!379).

  • QuantumDevice - The TransmonElement will be deprecated after version 0.8 (!374).

0.6.0 Full support for multiplexed readout, transmon element update, fixes to backends (2022-03-10)

Breaking changes

  • Compilation - Deprecated add_pulse_information_transmon in favor of compilation.backends.circuit_to_device.compile_circuit_to_device (#64, #67, !339).

  • Compilation - attempting compilation with missing values in the DeviceCompilationConfig configuration will now raise validation errors. Be sure to set initial values when generating a config using the QuantumDevice object (!339)

  • Compilation - Device compile making use of .compile_circuit_to_device no longer modifies the input schedule (#249, !339).

  • Compilation - When specifying multiple timing constraints for a schedulable, the constraint specifying the latest time determines the absolute time of the shedulable (!309)

  • Gettables - ScheduleGettableSingleChannel renamed to ScheduleGettable as it now supports multiple acquisition channels (!299).

  • Hardware config - Removed the need for a ic_ prefix from the hardware config (!312).

  • Instrument Coordinator - IC now adds a GenericInstrumentCoordinatorComponent to itself on instantiation by default (!350)

  • Instrument Coordinator - IC stop function has an allow_failure parameter which allows IC components attached to it to fail to stop with warning instead of raising errors. Allows for situations when some components cannot have a stop instruction sent before the prepare stage. (!359)

  • Operations - The internal behavior of how acquisition channels and acquisition indices are configured in the Measure operation has changed slightly. See #262 for details. (!339).

  • Operations - Added “operation_type” key to the schema. (!345)

  • Structure - Schedule.timing_constraints has been renamed to Schedule.schedulables. It now points to a dictionary of schedulables rather than a list of dicts. (!309)

  • Structure - Pydantic-based model is now used for the data structures. (!341)

  • Visualization - Deprecated plot_circuit_diagram_mpl and plot_pulse_diagram_mpl in ScheduleBase in favour of plot_circuit_diagram and plot_pulse_diagram (!313)

  • Qblox backend - Strictly requires v0.5.4 of the qblox-instruments package (!314)

  • Zhinst backend - Due to !312, the csv files used to upload the waveforms to the UHFQA no longer use the ic_ prefix in their filenames. (!334)

  • Zhinst backend - Fixes bug when doing SSRO experiments. No more duplicated shots. Adds support for BinMode.APPEND during compilation. (#276, !358)

  • Zhinst backend - Removed latency and line_trigger_delay keys in the channels of the devices for the Zhinst hardware config. (!363)

  • Zhinst backend - Added latency_corrections main entry in the Zhinst hardware config for latency corrections on a port-clock combination basis. (!363)

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Compilation - Added a new compilation backend compilation.backends.circuit_to_device.compile_circuit_to_device for the quantum-circuit to quantum-device layer (#64, #67, !339).

  • Compilation - Fixed add_pulse_information_transmon when using “Trace” acquisition mode (!300)

  • Compilation - Fixed the deprecation warnings from pandas DataFrame.append. (!347)

  • Docs - Pinning qcodes package to <0.32.0 due to Read the Docs API reference failure (!361)

  • Gettables - ScheduleGettable now first stops all instruments in IC during initialization (!324)

  • Schedules - Adds a multiplexing verification schedule. (!329)

  • Operations - Sudden Net Zero from Negirneac 2021 added to the pulse_library (!339)

  • Operations - Docstrings for the X90, X, Y90, Y, and Rxy gate unitary have been aligned with literature. (#261, !305)

  • Operations - Adds an optional “data” argument to staircase pulse. (!335)

  • Pulse library - Added ShiftClockPhase operation that can be used to shift the phase of a clock during execution of a Schedule (!346)

  • Pulse library - Added a numerically defined pulse. (!157)

  • QuantumDevice - Unknown values are initialized as float('nan') (#274, !356)

  • TransmonElement - Corrected the motzoi parameter range validator. (!351)

  • Visualization - Adds visualisation of acquisitions to plotly pulse diagrams (!304)

  • Visualization - Add plot_pulse_diagram and plot_circuit_diagram to schedule for easier method names, and enable plotly visualization directly from ScheduleBase (!313)

  • Utilities - Migrates the utilities from quantify-core. (!357)

  • Generic ICC - Adds support for nested parameters. (!330)

  • Qblox ICCs - Stop now disables sync on all sequencers to prevent hanging during next run, where it gets re-enabled if needed (!324)

  • Qblox ICCs - _QRMAcquisitionManager._get_scope_data now has correct return type (#232, !300)

  • Qblox ICCs - Fixed bug where QRM scope mode sequencer does not get set correctly (!342)

  • Qblox ICCs - Fixed reference source cluster issue when it is not being set correctly. (!323)

  • Qblox backend - NCO phase now gets reset every averaging loop (!337)

  • Qblox backend - Enables RF output switch at the start of a program. (!344)

  • Qblox backend - Added logic for changing the NCO phase during execution of a Schedule (!346)

  • Qblox backend - Added ability to correct for latency by delaying program execution on a per sequencer basis (!325)

  • Qblox backend - Compilation with local oscillators changed to work with generic instrument coordinator components (!306)

  • Qblox backend - Refactored operation handling and greatly increased test coverage (!301).

  • Qblox backend - Made max duration of wait instructions (!319).

  • Qblox backend - Fixed an issue with the downconverter frequency correction. (!318)

  • Qblox backend - Temporary fix for a floating point rounding error when calculating the length of pulses. (#284, !365)

  • Zhinst backend - Fixed the ZI resolver return typehint. (!307)

  • Zhinst backend - Fixed an issue when compiling seqc programs for multiple sequencers end up overwriting the first sequencer. (!340, #260)

0.5.2 Fixes to backends, and other incremental fixes (2021-12-08)

Breaking changes

  • Dependency on jsonschema has been replaced with fastjsonschema. (!284, !293)

  • Zhinst hardware config json schema has changed. See the example schema. (!283)

  • In hardware_compile function, the hardware_map is changed to hardware_cfg parameter. (!279)

  • Remove enum tools dependency (!270)

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Compilation - The determine_absolute_scheduling function now sorts the list of labels in the timing constraints, and then a binary search (via np.searchsorted) is applied. (!272, !274)

  • Compilation - Make device_cfg an optional argument of qcompile(!281)

  • Compilation - renamed the hardware_mapping argument of qcompile into hardware_cfg (#165, !279)

  • Compilation - Introduced the hardware_compile function to perform the hardware compilation returning a CompiledSchedule (#224, !279)

  • Docs - Updating user guide to mention correctly the QuantumDevice and ScheduleGettable(s) available. (!209)

  • Infrastructure - Adds rich package in the requirements since tutorials use it. (!276)

  • Operations - The locate function now uses the functools.lru_cache to cache the result (only for python >= 3.8). For python 3.7, behaviour remains the same. (!273, !275)

  • Operations - Resolved a minor issue where identical Rxy rotations (for angles >360) would be treated as separate operations in a schedule (!263)

  • Visualization - Adds a function plot_acquisition_operations which together with the new AcquisitionOperation class will help highlight acquisition pulses in the pulse diagrams. (!271, !277)

  • Zhinst backend - Large parts of the Zhinst backend have been rewritten. This should resolve a range of issues. (!263)

    • Calculation of the timelines for different operations now makes using of a timing table, improving code readability and debugability.

    • Timing issues related to triggering should be resolved (#218)

    • The backend can now always use the same hardware configuration file (#214)

    • Acquisition is now done using the StartQA instruction (#213)

    • error handling in the Zhinst backend has been improved catching several exceptions at compile time of the schedule instead of manifesting in unexpected results during runtime.

    • Local oscillators through the ZI backend uses the GenericInstrumentCoordinatorComponent. Configures other parameters other than frequency. (!283, #204)

  • Qblox backend - only check major and minor version when checking compatibility with the qblox_instruments package (!290)

    • Added support for the Qblox Downconverter (!297)

    • Added workaround for staircase_amplitude. (!292)

    • Fix looped acquisition integration time, fix acquire index offset by one (!291)

    • Qblox instruments version == 0.5.3 (!289)

    • Fix sequencer_sync_en not being reset in the qblox instrument coordinator component. (!285)

    • Fix rounding of time to samples in qblox backend (!282)

    • Fix pulse stitching at zero amplitude. (!280)

    • Allow instruction generated staircase with modulation (!278)

  • Utilities - Improve JSON validation speed (!284)

  • Utilities - Improve operation deserialization speed (!273)

  • Bugfix - For calculating the pulse area, the mathematical area is used instead of area of sampled pulse. (!242, !286)

  • Bugfix - Fix for plot window operations (!294)

0.5.1 Incremental fixes, refactoring, and addition of convenience methods and classes (2021-11-11)

Breaking changes

  • InstrumentCoordinator - last_schedule is now a property (!252).

  • Structure - We have refactored the Operation and Schedule classes out of the types module and moved the different operation libraries (acquisition_library, gate_library, and pulse_library) (#217, !256).

    • quantify_scheduler.types.Operation -> quantify_scheduler.operations.operation.Operation, the import quantify_scheduler.Operation still works.

    • quantify_scheduler.types.Schedule -> quantify_scheduler.schedules.schedule.Schedule, the import quantify_scheduler.Schedule still works.

    • quantify_scheduler.types.CompiledSchedule -> quantify_scheduler.schedules.schedule.CompiledSchedule

    • quantify_scheduler.types.ScheduleBase -> quantify_scheduler.schedules.schedule.ScheduleBase

    • quantify_scheduler.types.AcquisitionMetadata -> quantify_scheduler.schedules.schedule.AcquisitionMetadata

    • quantify_scheduler.acquisition_library -> quantify_scheduler.operations.acquisition_library

    • quantify_scheduler.gate_library -> quantify_scheduler.operations.gate_library

    • quantify_scheduler.pulse_library -> quantify_scheduler.operations.pulse_library

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Control - Add option to set output port in heterodyne_spec_sched (!262)

  • Control - Expand SingleChannelScheduleGettable to support trace acquisitions (!248)

  • Control - Update create_dc_compensation_pulse behaviour and docstring. (!244)

  • Control - Refactor ScheduleGettableSingleChannel (!240, !249)

  • Control - Reduce the default init_duration of spectroscopy schedules (!237)

  • Generic ICC - Added a GenericInstrumentCoordinatorComponent. (!267)

  • ICCs - InstrumentCoordinatorComponentBase now has a force_set_parameter as a ManualParameter to enable the user to switch the lazy_set behaviour when setting parameters of the instruments connected to the InstrumentCoordinatorComponent. (!267)

  • Qblox ICCs - Adds a lazy_set behaviour by default when setting parameters with the same value to an instrument connected to the Qblox ICC. (!230)

  • Visualization - made matplotlib schedule visualization methods accessible as methods plot_circuit_diagram_mpl and plot_pulse_diagram_mpl of the Schedule class (!253)

  • Visualization - resolved a bug where a schedule was modified when drawing a circuit diagram (#197, !250)

  • Visualization - Add support for window operation to transmon backend (!245)

  • Infrastructure - Fix and enhance pre-commit + add to CI (!257, !265)

  • Infrastructure - Added prospector config file for CI. (!261)

  • Bugfix - Removed redundant determine_absolute_timing step in qcompile. (!259)

  • Bugfix - Ramp pulse sampling utilizing np.linspace behaviour changed. (!258)

  • Docs - Adds the new Quantify logo similar to quantify_core. (!266)

  • Docs - Enhance documentation of public API for reimported modules [imports aliases] (!254)

  • Docs - Fixes the funcparserlib error in rtd. (!251)

  • Docs - Updated Qblox backend docs to include the new features. (!247)

0.5.0 Expanded feature sets hardware compilation backends (2021-10-25)

Breaking changes

  • The schedules.timedomain_schedules.allxy_sched function no longer accepts the string “All” as an argument to the element_select_idx keyword.

  • The QuantumDevice.cfg_nr_averages parameter was renamed to QuantumDevice.cfg_sched_repetitions

  • The call signature of gettables.ScheduleVectorAcqGettable has been renamed to gettables.ScheduleGettableSingleChannel, and the call signature has been updated according to #36 to no longer accept several keyword arguments.

  • Qblox Backend - The NCO phase is now reset at the start of a program (!213).

  • Qblox Backend - Compilation now requires qblox_instruments version 0.5.0, 0.5.1 or 0.5.2 (!214, !221).

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Compilation - Added the ability to specify the BinMode at the quantum-circuit layer (#183, !180).

  • Compilation - qcompile no longer modifies schedules (#102, !178).

  • Control - Added a first version of the QuantumDevice object (#148, !180).

  • Control - A single-qubit ScheduleGettable has been added (#36, !180).

  • Docs - Added bibliography with sphinxcontrib-bibtex extension (!171).

  • Docs - Fixed missing files in API reference (!176).

  • InstrumentCoordinator - CompiledSchedule class added to specify interfaces of InstrumentCoordinator and compilation functions (#174, !177).

  • InstrumentCoordinator - CompiledSchedule.last_schedule method added to provide access to last executed schedule (#167, !177).

  • Qblox Backend - Added support for qblox_instruments version 0.4.0 (new acquisition path) (!143).

  • Qblox Backend - Added support for real time mixer corrections rather than pre-distorting the uploaded waveforms (!192).

  • Qblox Backend - Waveforms are now compared using the normalized data array rather than the parameterized description (!182).

  • Qblox Backend - Support for append bin mode (#184, !180).

  • Qblox Backend - Support for using real value pulses on arbitrary outputs added (!142).

  • Qblox Backend - Compilation now supports 6 sequencers for both the QCM as well as the QRM (!142).

  • Qblox Backend - Support for a cluster, along with its QCM, QRM, QCM-RF and QRM-RF modules (!164)

  • Qblox Backend - Registers are now dynamically allocated during compilation (!195)

  • Zhinst backend - No exception is raised when an LO that is in the config is not part of a schedule. (#203, !223)

  • Zhinst backend - Instrument coordinator components for ZI will only be configured when the settings used to configure it have changed (#196, !227)

  • Zhinst backend - Solved a bug that caused single-sideband demodulation to not be configured correctly when using the UHFQA (!227)

  • Zhinst backend - Warnings raised during compilation of seqc programs will no longer raise an exception but will use logging.warning (!227)

  • Zhinst backend - resolved a bug where the instrument coordinator cannot write waveforms to the UHFQA if it has never been used before (!227)

  • Zhinst backend - resolved a bug where multiple identical measurements in a schedule would result in multiple integration weights being uploaded to the UFHQA (#207, !234)

  • Zhinst backend - resolved a bug where the UHFQA would not be triggered properly when executing a schedule with multiple samples (batched mode) (#205, !234)

  • Qblox ICCs - Compensated integration time for Qblox QRM IC component (!199).

  • Qblox ICCs - Added error handling for error flags given by get_sequencer_state (!215)

  • QuantumDevice - Added docstrings to the TransmonElement parameters (!216, !218)

  • Qblox ICCs - QCoDeS parameters are now only set if they differ from the value in the cache (!230)

  • Visualization - Allow user defined axis for plotting circuit diagram (!206)

  • Visualization - Adds schedule plotting using matplotlib and a WindowOperation to help visualize pulse diagrams (!225, !232)

  • Other - Added method sample_schedule to sample a Schedule (!212)

  • Other - The RampPulse has an extra (optional) parameter offset (!211)

  • Other - Updated existing schedules to make use of the acquisition index (#180, !180).

  • Other - Added a function to extract acquisition metadata from a schedule (#179, !180).

  • Other - The soft square waveform can now be evaluated with only one datapoint without raising an exception (!235)

  • Other - Added a function that generates a square pulse that compensates DC components of a sequence of pulses (!173)

0.4.0 InstrumentCoordinator and improvements to backends (2021-08-06)

Breaking changes

  • Change of namespace from quantify.scheduler.* to quantify_scheduler.*

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Changes the namespace from quantify.scheduler to quantify_scheduler (!124)

  • InstrumentCoordinator - Add is_running property and wait_done method. Closes #133 (!140)

  • InstrumentCoordinator - Add instrument coordinator reference parameter to transmon element (!152)

  • InstrumentCoordinator - Prefix serialized settings for ZI ControlStack components. (!149)

  • InstrumentCoordinator - Refactored ControlStack name to InstrumentCoordinator (!151)

  • InstrumentCoordinator - Make use of InstrumentRefParameters (!144)

  • InstrumentCoordinator - Add controlstack class (!70)

  • InstrumentCoordinator - Add Zurich Instruments InstrumentCoordinatorComponent. (!99)

  • InstrumentCoordinator - Add Qblox InstrumentCoordinatorComponent. (!112)

  • InstrumentCoordinator - Avoid garbage collection for instrument coordinator components (!162)

  • Qblox backend - Removed limit in Qblox backend that keeps the QCM sequencer count at 2 (!135)

  • Qblox backend - Restructured compilation using external local oscillators. (!116)

  • Qblox backend - Added Chirp and Staircase pulses; and efficient implementation for QD spin qubit experiments (!106)

  • Qblox backend - Only run start_sequencer on pulsar instruments which have been armed (!156)

  • Zhinst backend - Assert current with new sequence program to skip compilation (!131)

  • Zhinst backend - Deserialize zhinst settings from JSON to ZISettingsBuilder (!130)

  • Zhinst backend - Add waveform mixer skewness corrections (!103)

  • Zhinst backend - Add backend option to enable Calibration mode (#103, !123)

  • Zhinst backend - Replace weights string array with a numerical array in JSON format (!148)

  • Zhinst backend - Add grouping of instrument settings (!133)

  • Zhinst backend - Add qcompile tests for the zurich instruments backend (!118)

  • Zhinst backend - Add repetitions parameter (!138)

  • Zhinst backend - Fixes the bug where the seqc in the datadir is not copied to the webserver location. (!165)

  • Fix for circuit diagram plotting failure after pulse scheduling (#157, !163)

  • Fixed typo in the gate_info of the Y gate in the gate_library (!155)

  • Add artificial detuning in Ramsey Schedule and bug fixes (!120)

  • Use individual loggers per python file (!134)

  • Recolour draw circuit diagram mpl (!96)

  • Fix issues with timedomain schedules (!145)

  • Renamed input parameters of quantify_scheduler.schedules.* functions. (!136)

  • Added acquisitions to circuit diagram (!93)

  • Add string representations to acquisition protocols of the acquisitions library (!114)

  • Transmon element and config generation (!75)

  • Rename operation_hash to operation_repr (!122)

  • Add types.Schedule from_json conversion (!119)

  • Add missing return types (!121)

  • Add serialization to Operations (!110)

0.3.0 Multiple backends support (2021-05-20)

  • Added support for both Qblox and Zurich Instrument backends.

  • Added convenience pylintrc configuration file.

  • Added examples for timedomain and spectroscopy schedules.

Breaking changes

  • Major refactor of the Qblox backend. (For example, it’s now quantify_core.backends.qblox_backend instead of the previous quantify_core.backends.pulsar_backend)

  • Qblox backend requires strictly v0.3.2 of the qblox-instruments package.

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Add mixer skewness corrections helper function. (!102)

  • Added Qblox backend support. (!81)

  • Compile backend with ZISettingsBuilder. (!87)

  • Add vscode IDE config files. (!100)

  • Add ZISettingsBuilder class. (!86)

  • Added representation to gates in gate library and defined equality operation. (!101)

  • Fix/operation duration. Fixes #107. (!89)

  • Feat/long pulses fix validators name. (!90)

  • Implemented long square pulses unrolling (for waveform-memory-limited devices). (!83)

  • Changed Qblox-Instruments version to 0.3.2. (!88)

  • Feature: Improve overall zhinst backend timing. (!77)

  • Plotly cleanup. (!69)

  • Pulsar backend version bump. (!82)

  • Added zhinst backend support. (!49)

  • Added example timedomain programs. (!71)

  • Added example spectroscopy programs. (!64)

  • Added pylintrc configuration file. (!55)

  • Added repetitions property to Schedule. (!56)

  • Added Acquisition Protocols. (!51)

  • Hotfix for filename sanitization pulsar backend. (!61)

  • Pulsar backend function sanitization. (!60)

  • Potential fix time-out pulsar. (!58)

  • Updated Pulsar backend version to v0.2.3.. (!57)

  • Fixed datadir related bugs. (!54)

  • Added Station implementation. (!52)

  • Pulsar backend v0.2.2 check. (!48)

  • Fix for issue with acq delay. (!45)

  • Fix for issue #52. (!44)

  • Add artificial detuning to Ramsey schedule (!120)

  • Added support for the Qblox Pulsar QCM-RF/QRM-RF devices (!158)

0.2.0 Hybrid pulse- gate-level control model (2021-01-14)

  • Major refactor of the scheduler resource code enabling hybrid pulse- gate-level control.

  • Moved quantify_scheduler.types.Resource class to a separate quantify_scheduler.resources module.

  • Adds a BasebandClockResource class within the newly created quantify_scheduler.resources module.

  • Moved QRM and QCM related classes to the quantify_scheduler.backends.pulsar_backend module.

  • In quantify_scheduler.compilation, rename of function ‘_determine_absolute_timing’ to ‘determine_absolute_timing’. Argument changed from clock_unit to time_unit.

  • In quantify_scheduler.compilation, rename of function ‘_add_pulse_information_transmon’ to ‘add_pulse_information_transmon’.

  • Added ramp waveform in quantify_scheduler.waveforms.

  • Added schemas for operation and transmon_cfg.

  • Added a basic hybrid visualisation for pulses using new addressing scheme.

  • Operations check whether an operation is a valid gate or pulse.

  • Refactor of visualization module. Moved quantify_scheduler.backends.visualization to quantify_scheduler.visualization module. Expect code breaking reorganization and changes to function names.

  • Pulsar backend version now checks for QCM and QRM drivers version 0.1.2.

Merged branches and closed issues

  • fix(pulse_scheme): Add tickformatstops for x-axis using SI-unit ‘seconds’. Closes #39. (!39)

  • Resolve “y-axis label is broken in plotly visualization after resources-refactor”. Closes #45. (!38)

  • Resources refactor (!28, !29, !30)

  • Hybrid visualisation for pulses and circuit gate operations. Closes #22 and #6. (!27)

  • Support Pulsar parameterisation from scheduler. Support feature for #29. (!2)

  • Operation properties to check if an operation is a valid gate or pulse. Closes #28 (!25)

  • Visualisation refactor. Closes #26. (!22)

  • Windows job (!20)

  • Changed Pulsar backend version check from 0.1.1 to 0.1.2. (!21)

0.1.0 (2020-10-21)

  • Refactored scheduler functionality from quantify-core into quantify-scheduler

  • Support for modifying Pulsar params via the sequencer #54 (!2)

  • Simplification of compilation through qcompile (!1)

  • Qubit resources can be parameters of gates #11 (!4)

  • Circuit diagram visualization of operations without no pulse info raises exception #5 (!5)

  • Pulsar backend verifies driver and firmware versions of hardware #14 (!6)

  • Sequencer renamed to scheduler #15 (!7)

  • Documentation update to reflect refactor #8 (!8)

  • Refactor circuit diagram to be more usable !10 (relates to #6)

  • Unify API docstrings to adhere to NumpyDocstring format !11

  • Changes to addressing of where a pulse is played !9 (#10)

  • Renamed doc -docs folder for consistency #18 (!12)

  • Moved test folder outside of project #19 (!14)

  • Add copyright notices and cleanup documenation #21 (!13)

  • Add installation tip for plotly dependency in combination with jupyter #24 (!15)

Note

  • # denotes a closed issue.

  • ! denotes a merge request.