Integrated Circuit and System Design
The Department for Integrated Circuit and System Design covers the development of design methods for various application areas. A particular focus of our work is on the design, verification, and test of circuits and systems for conventional as well as alternative and post-CMOS computing technologies. Besides that, we have proven to successfully apply the methods developed by us in complementary research areas (learn more about our research on this page). For students, we offer lectures for graduate and undergraduate students and supervise Bachelor as well as Master theses. We believe in research-oriented learning.
News
- Jun 07, 2021: Robert Wille discussed with Thomas Stelzer (Prime Minister of Upper Austria) and approx. 40 experts, opinion leaders, etc. about how Upper Austria can further improve its position as a vibrant center for researchers, students, and entrepreneurs (Photo 1, Photo 2). This is also covered in an article "LH Stelzer blickt bereits weit in die Zukunft" by Krone.
- June 04, 2021: Paul K. Fährmann, MSc, Institute of Physics, Free University of Berlin (FUB), Germany, gives a talk on "Training Quantum Embedding Kernels on Near-Term Quantum Computers ".
- May 27, 2021: Lukas Burgholzer and Stefan Hillmich participated in the "IBM Quantum Challenge 2021 and both attained an optimal score. Over 1400 persons participated in this challenge.
- May 26, 2021: We released an update for our DD package and quantum circuit simulator (Github / PyPI) to increase performance on more complex circuits.
- May 26, 2021: Our work on "Lessons Learnt in the Implementation of Quantum Circuit Simulation Using Decision Diagrams" is presented at the International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL).
- May 24, 2021: Our work on "SMT-Based Placement for System-on-Chip Design" is presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
- May 19, 2021: We released an update for our quantum circuit simulator that includes bindings for Python as well as provider and backends for Qiskit. See this jupyter notebook for a short introduction.
- May 18, 2021: We released a hybrid Schrödinger-Feynman version of our quantum circuit simulation based on decision diagrams. See this github for the implementation and this paper for more details.
- May 17, 2021: We released our approach for quantum measurements with classical shadows based on decision diagrams. See this github for the implementation and this paper for more details.
- May 09, 2021: Robert Wille has been appointed member of the Program Committee for Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC).
- May 07, 2021: Robert Wille has been appointed member of the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD).
- Apr 28, 2021: Lukas Burgholzer received the IBM Associate Developer Certification for Quantum Computation using Qiskit v0.2X.
- Apr 27, 2021: We released a new version of our JKQ toolset for quantum computing that substantially improves the performance of almost all decision diagram-related routines (including simulation, verification, etc.). See our github for more details.
- Apr 12, 2021: Our work on quantum computing is mentioned in a press release by Upper Austrian's Secretary of Economy and Research Markus Achleitner (in German).