On using FPGAS to accelerate the emulation of quantum computing

This paper investigates the possibility of implementing a conventional computing architecture that can practically emulate the functionality of a hypothetical quantum computer. The state of the art transistor feature size makes the resource requirement, for emulating quantum computation with a relatively large number of qubits, possible. In this paperwe investigate how a programmable logic array can be used to practically emulate quantum computation with entanglement characteristics. We illustrate the concept of our practical quantum computer emulator by examining the steps required to build a HW/SW co-design system that can automatically instantiate HW components that implement a quantum computing processing step.