Broadcast Date: 3/30/2021

Time: 9 am PST / 12 pm EST / 7pm CEST

Find out how FPGA digital signal processing allows HW-based qubit state detection with very low latency.

Controlling quantum processors requires fast feedback to perform certain operations, such as Quantum Error Correction (QEC) and qubit reset. QEC involves the readout of ancilla qubits, fast decision-making, and consequent correction of data qubits if needed. For many qubit technologies, this feedback loop needs to happen in nanosecond timescales, ideally as short as possible. Processing must happen at hardware speeds and latencies. FPGAs allow custom and reconfigurable hardware-based, real-time processing. This webinar focuses on FPGA IP components for analyzing multi-carrier RF or baseband readout signals and extracting the qubit states. Find out how to speed this process with state-of-the-art, low-latency signal filtering techniques.  

Technical Director - Quantum Engineering Solutions (QES)

Keysight Technologies

Dr. Marc Almendros is the Technical Director of Keysight’s Quantum Engineering Solutions group (QES), developing electronic solutions for quantum computing, quantum communications, and quantum sensing applications. He holds a PhD in Aerospace Science and Technology with a focus on long-distance quantum communications from ICFO/UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia) and a MSc/BSc in Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering from La Salle (Ramon Llull University). Almendros also holds an MBA from ESADE Business School. He has years of experience in startup creation and fundraising, financial and marketing planning, R&D and technology consulting, and general management.

Dr. Almendros is the Co-founder and former CEO of Signadyne, a company that spun off from an ion trap research group of ICFO (The Institute of Photonic Sciences) in 2011. Signadyne was acquired by Keysight in 2016.

Dr. Almendros is the co-author of a dozen scientific papers about the trapping and manipulation of single ions for quantum engineering applications. He is the co-inventor of two patents around FPGAs: synchronization and real-time technologies.

Aerospace and Defense Industry Solutions Marketer

Keysight Technologies

Nancy Friedrich started a career in engineering media about two decades ago with a stint editing copy and writing news for Electronic Design. A few years later, she began writing full time as technology editor at Wireless Systems Design. In 2005, Nancy was named editor-in-chief of Microwaves & RF, a position she held (along with other positions as group content head) until 2018. Nancy then moved to a position at UBM, where she was editor-in-chief of Design News and content director for tradeshows including DesignCon, ESC, and the Smart Manufacturing shows. At Keysight Technologies, Nancy is an Industry Solutions Marketer for Aerospace & Defense.