Sample Generic Quantum RF PDK 0.0.2

Sample Generic Quantum RF PDK 0.0.2#

Based on a combination of the most popular Open source Quantum PDK packages

  • Qiskit Metal keeps a layer stack as a dataframe/CSV (per-chip rows) with columns like chip_name, layer, datatype, material, thickness, z_coord, and fill. The LayerStackHandler enforces uniqueness of layer numbers across chips and is used by the renderers (HFSS/Gmsh).

  • KQCircuits (KLayout-based) ships a default layer config (default_layers) plus an optional KLayout layer-props file (.lyp) and supports multi-face/multi-mask export. There’s also a utility to sync and display props from default_layers.

  • DeviceLayout.jl (AWS CQC) targets GDS (for fabrication) and 3D models/meshes (for EM simulation, e.g., Palace). Teams version their “PDKs” as Julia packages/registries; a 17-qubit reference design and transmon/resonator examples are published.

Installation#

We recommend uv

# On macOS and Linux.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# On Windows.
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Installation for users#

Use python 3.11, 3.12 or 3.13. We recommend VSCode as an IDE.

uv pip install qpdk --upgrade

Then you need to restart Klayout to make sure the new technology installed appears.

Installation for contributors#

Then you can install with:

git clone https://github.com/gdsfactory/qpdk.git
cd qpdk
uv venv --python 3.12
uv sync --extra docs --extra dev

Documentation#

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