Welcome to the QICK documentation!

The Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit (QICK for short) is a Xilinx RFSoC-based qubit controller which supports the direct synthesis of control pulses with carrier frequencies of up to 6 GHz. The QICK consists of a digital board hosting an RFSoC (RF System-on-Chip) FPGA, custom firmware and software, and an optional companion custom-designed analog front-end board. All of the schematics, firmware, and software are open-source and available on Github.

Getting started with QICK

• First, for a global overview of the QICK and its capabilities, read our instrumentation paper introducing the QICK.

• If you have a ZCU111 board and you want to configure it as a QICK board, follow the quick start guide on our Github repository.

• After you configure your board, you can test it with our library of loopback demos.

• The source code for the QICK software library is available at this link. To learn more about the QICK software, see the following documentation.

QICK software

• QICK software quick reference
  • Quick reference
  • tProcessor register information
  • Signal generator options
• QICK firmware
  • tProcessor channel assignment
  • Timing
  • Firmware parameters
• QICK software library
  • qick
  • qick.qick
  • qick.qick_asm
  • qick.averager_program
  • qick.helpers
  • qick.parser

QICK firmware

• If you are interested in learning more about the QICK firmware, the firmware and its documentation are available here.

• You also may want to learn more about how the QICK tProcessor works. In this case, you can reference the QICK assembly language documentation. Note that this documentation may not be up to date with the current version of the QICK firmware. It is made available here as a learning tool for those interested in learning the principles of the QICK tProcessor. Those who have more specific questions can contact lstefana AT fnal.gov.