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THU: Thursday Contributed Sessions
THU 13: Poster Session: Applications
THU 13.21: Poster
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 16:30–18:30, ZHG Foyer 1. OG
Scalable quantum firmware via Atomiq and HEROS — •Suthep Pomjaksilp1, Christian Hölzl2, Thomas Niederprüm3, Florian Meinert2, and Henning Moritz1 — 1University of Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany — 25th Institute of Physics, Universität Stuttgart, Germany — 3Department of Physics and research center OPTIMAS, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
The increasing complexity and fast cycle times of quantum technology experiments demand control systems that are not only high-performance but also accessible and adaptable. To orchestrate these intricate experimental platforms, we introduce a quantum firmware layer consisting of Atomiq and HEROS.
Atomiq is a modular framework designed to bridge the gap between ARTIQ hardware primitives and the high-level abstractions familiar to experimental physicists. It combines control devices into intuitive lab objects and uses a block-based experiment structure to encapsulate common procedures into reusable and extensible components. This approach enables clear, concise, and maintainable experiment code while preserving access to performance-critical features. Targeting the full experimental infrastructure, the HEROS object sharing service makes any software or hardware entity network transparent. It facilitates seamless interactions between real-time control and non-real-time instruments, environmental sensors and data handling workflows.
Combining the open-source tools ATOMIQ and HEROS empowers researchers to build, adapt, and scale their experiments with ease.
Keywords: artiq; atomiq; orchestration; hardware; control