In this video Koen Bertels will give a first overview of all the components of the quantum computer. What role does each layer have and how are all layers linked and dependent to each other?

Main takeaways

• Current efforts are put into building a quantum accelerator, a computational add-on to the classical computers to exceed current performance.

• Heterogeneous multicore architecture entails a Field Programmable Gate Array, a Graphics Programming Unit and a quantum co-processor.

• The building blocks for a quantum computer are a quantum algorithm, a quantum language, a compiler, arithmetic, an instruction set, a micro-architecture, a quantum to classical conversion and a quantum chip.