Quantum Source Pilots QC Design’s Plaquette to Accelerate Photonic Fault-Tolerance
Quantum Source’s partnership with QC Design is centred on integrating Plaquette, a sophisticated fault-tolerance software tool, into Quantum Source’s development process for photonic quantum computing. By using Plaquette to simulate realistic hardware imperfections, Quantum Source gains vital insights into optimizing its deterministic atom-photon architecture for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. This collaboration is particularly important because it addresses the key challenge of designing systems that can reliably operate with millions of qubits, thereby hastening the commercial viability of quantum computing solutions.
Plaquette v2024.12 released with new tools for MBQC simulations
Plaquette v2024.12 turbocharges MBQC cluster state simulations with 20x speed improvements and advanced error-correcting code generation. Easily simulate custom CSS-code-based cluster states, analyze noise resilience, and optimize architectures and quickly explore diverse MBQC applications with unmatched efficiency.
Plaquette v2024.11 released with support for superconducting qubits, new qLDPC codes and more
Plaquette v2024.11 introduces superconducting qubit simulations, enabling fault-tolerant quantum computing studies under realistic noise models including leakage. New qLDPC codes, decoders, and simplified gate error modeling enhance exploration of optimized quantum architectures across hardware platforms.
Plaquette v2024.10 released with support for Dynamic Circuits
Plaquette v2024.10 significantly enhances fault-tolerant quantum computing simulations with dynamic circuits, customizable entangling gate orders, support for superconducting qubits, and an upgraded xpauli backend.
Plaquette v2024.8 released with 5000x faster simulations and real hardware imperfection support
Plaquette v2024.8 boosts quantum error correction simulations with 5000x speed improvements to the xpauli backend, real hardware imperfection support, and the new full_state simulator for exact simulations. This update accelerates fault-tolerance design, enabling faster and more accurate results.
Quantum design automation leader, QC Design, selected for the prestigious EIC Accelerator program and secures €4M funding
QC Design, a leader in quantum design automation software, has been selected for the prestigious Accelerator program by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to support the development of its design-automation software and architectures for quantum computing.
Plaquette v2024.6 released with support for qLDPC codes
Plaquette v2024.6 now supports the construction and simulation of quantum LDPC codes, offering an easy-to-use pipeline for the full simulation under the broadest variety of hardware error models.
Plaquette v2024.5 released with support for native quantum dot imperfections
Plaquette v2024.5 is now the first software tool that enables studying the impact of native imperfections that arise in quantum dots.
QC Design CEO Ish Dhand Wins Newcomer of the Year at German Startup Awards
QC Design CEO Ish Dhand wins Newcomer of the Year at the German Startup Awards 2024. Celebrating the German startup ecosystem in Berlin, the event highlighted QC Design’s advances in design-automation software and architectures for fault-tolerant quantum computing.
QC Design announces launch of fault-tolerance design automation tool Plaquette+ and first sale to QuiX Quantum
QC Design, a quantum computing company providing fault-tolerance software and architectures, has announced the launch of Plaquette+, a fault-tolerance design automation software providing cutting-edge fault-tolerance methods and hardware-tailored error models.
IQM Quantum Computers and QC Design partner to bring “Fault Tolerance” module to IQM academy
[Cross-posted from the IQM blog] QC Design, a quantum computing company that designs useful and scalable quantum computers, has partnered with IQM Quantum Computers to introduce a new training module dubbed “Fault Tolerance and Quantum Error Correction” (FT-QEC) to IQM Academy to broaden the learning opportunities for university students, educators, and quantum enthusiasts.