Changelog

0.13.0 (2023-05-05)

Release Highlights

  • This release introduces a new acquisition protocol: NumericalWeightedIntegrationComplex, that allows users perform a weighted integration acquisition.

  • The schedule library now has a new schedule that performs an NCO frequency sweep in a dark ESR experiment on an NV-center.

  • A lot of code that was marked as deprecated has been removed. Please checkout our deprecated code suggestions on how to modify you code to ammend any problems caused by this removal.

  • Many improvements and small bug fixes.

Breaking changes

  • Deprecation - Deprecated code that had been scheduled to be removed after version 0.12 has been removed. The deprecated code suggestions have been updated (!667).

  • Qblox backend - Markers will not be pulled high at the start of sequences anymore. Removed MarkerConfiguration from the Qblox backend. Moved output_map to StaticHardwareProperties, the RF output switches are controlled by the output_map. (!1081)

  • Qblox backend - Deprecate the instruction_generated_pulses_enabled hardware configuration setting, as well as the StitchedSquarePulseStrategy and StaircasePulseStrategy. The newly introduced StitchedPulse, as well as the helper functions in quantify_scheduler.pulse_factories can be used instead. SquarePulses with a duration >1 microsecond (a constant in the Qblox backend) are compiled to AWG offset instructions (!637).

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Compilation - Move ModulationFrequencies to CompilationConfig.hardware_options (!660)

  • Compilation - Update structure of HardwareOptions datastructure with fields latency_corrections: Dict[str, LatencyCorrection] and distortion_corrections: Dict[str, DistortionCorrection] (!650).

  • Compilation - Move DistortionCorrections to CompilationConfig.hardware_options (!648)

  • Compilation - Move LatencyCorrections to CompilationConfig.hardware_options and use field name corrections instead of latencies (!633).

  • Compilation - CompilationNodes take the full CompilationConfig as input (!615, #405)

  • Deprecation - Replace device_compile and hardware_compile by SerialCompiler in NV center tests (!651)

  • Documentation - Fix documentation generation warnings and errors (!658)

  • Documentation - Acquisition data format in user guide (!646)

  • Gettables - Clean up code syntax (!638)

  • Git - Change back to default merge strategy for CHANGELOG.md (!659).

  • Operations - Introduce the StitchedPulse, an Operation that can be composed of AWG offset instructions and waveforms, and the StitchedPulseBuilder which can be used to create StitchedPulses (!588, !666).

    • Additionally, helper functions long_square_pulse, long_ramp_pulse and staircase_pulse are introduced in quantify_scheduler.pulse_factories, to more easily generate the operations for these common use-cases.

  • Operations, Qblox backend - Introduce the VoltageOffset operation, for use in the StitchedPulse, and modify the compilation steps to compile this operation (!588).

  • Qblox backend - Add the marker_debug_mode_enable parameter to the hardware configuration, which toggles markers at the start of operations on inputs and outputs where it is set to True (!606).

  • Qblox backend - Renamed hw_mapping input parameter to instrument_cfg in InstrumentCompiler and up (!644).

  • Qblox backend - Let the compiler raise an error when the waveforms specified in the schedule are too large to be uploaded to a sequencer (!625).

  • Qblox backend - Forbid repeated acquisition index in schedule (!655, partially revert !542)

  • Qblox backend - Rename the MAX_SAMPLE_SIZE_ACQUISITIONS constant to MAX_SAMPLE_SIZE_SCOPE_ACQUISITIONS, and modify the docstring to clarify that this constant only refers to scope trace acquisitions (!649).

  • Qblox backend - Forbid repeated acquisition index in schedule (!655, !657, partially revert !542)

  • Qblox backend - Measure can now use the NumericalWeightedIntegrationComplex protocol. The DispersiveMeasurement has been expanded with optional weight parameters for use in this protocol (!612).

  • Schedulables - Make name uniqueness check more efficient and readable. (!631)

  • Schedules - Add nv_dark_esr_sched_nco spectroscopy schedule using SetClockFrequency Operation to sweep the NCO frequency (!639)

  • Tests - Move Qblox Pulsar entries from qblox_test_mapping.json to pytest fixtures (!632)

  • Tests - Qblox acquisition testcases with dummy data (!654)

  • Typing - More lenient typehints (!640)

  • Visualization - Introduce the x_range keyword for the matplotlib backend in Schedule.plot_pulse_diagram. This will cut off any points outside the given range when creating the plot. This can be used to reduce memory usage when plotting a small section of a long pulse sequence (!629).

  • ZI LabOne backend - Return datasets from UHFQA instrument coordinator component (which fixes the broken backend) (#410, !623).

Compatibility info

0.12.3 (2023-03-09)

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Documentation - Replace deprecated code in the Operations and Qubits tutorial (!602)

  • Workflow - ruff and pyright are enabled for linting the code (in pre-commit and in CI pipeline). All existing code is added to exclusion list because it does not comply with them yet. (!614)

0.12.2 (2023-03-05)

Breaking changes

  • Qblox backend - Fix imaginary and real part of the acquisition by swapping them, and fix trigger count formatting (!619)

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Qblox backend - raise DriverVersionError when importing qblox module with incompatible qblox-instruments version (!620)

0.12.1 (2023-03-02)

Breaking changes

  • Qblox backend - Strictly requires v0.9.x of the qblox-instruments package (!616)

0.12.0 (2023-02-28)

Breaking changes

  • Acquisition - InstrumentCoordinator.retrieve_acquisition returns an xarray.Dataset (!550, #362)

  • Qblox backend - Set the marker_ovr_en QCoDeS parameter by default to False before schedule execution, so that the markers are always controlled using the MarkerConfiguration (!576)

  • Qblox backend - Set "downconverter_freq" to null (json) or None to deactivate (0 no longer deactivates it) (!574)

  • Qblox backend - The NCO is now enabled when setting sequencer.frequency to 0 (0 no longer disables it) (!574)

    • For baseband modules without external LO, NCO is still permanently disabled by setting "interm_freq" to 0 in the hardware config

  • Visualization - Deprecate visualization module and its functions circuit_diagram_matplotlib, pulse_diagram_matplotlib, and pulse_diagram_plotly (!599, #397)

    • Create _visualization submodule within schedules

    • Make plots via ScheduleBase methods

    • Move visualization tests to schedules directory, and make tests for ScheduleBase plotting methods

Merged branches and closed issues

  • Compilation - Update CompilationConfig with high-level structure (!603, #332)

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

  • Documentation - Qblox backend reference guide overhaul and fix docs generation warnings (!587)

  • JSON utilities - Introduce serialization of python objects to a dotted import string, next to the already existing deserialization (import_python_object_from_string) (!578, #393)

    • Serialization now happens automatically in DataStructures, deserialization is implemented using Pydantic validators in the configuration models

  • Operations - Introduce SetClockFrequency operation (!575, follow-up to !539 !543)

  • Qblox backend - Introduce qblox.helpers.determine_clock_lo_interm_freqs and use in QbloxBasebandModule.assign_frequencies and QbloxRFModule.assign_frequencies (!574)

  • Qblox backend - Compile SetClockFrequency operation to set_freq + upd_param of 8 ns (!575, follow-up to !539 !543)

  • Qblox backend - Fix Qblox sync reset bug following !550 (!611)

  • Schedules - Add fast NCO sweep schedules using SetClockFrequency (!542)

  • ZI LabOne backend - Support distortion corrections (!600)

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.