Intel 8080 CPU Chip Development

Mazor, Stanley

doi:10.1109/mahc.2007.25

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“…These quantum circuits are combined to form and emulate all CPU instructions including but not limited to LOAD (latch), Arithmetic (adder, etc), Branch (C-not controlled) and bitwise logic (Quantum based logic gates) needed to implement a full instruction set. The quantum circuit-based instructions are then combined to create a fully functioning Intel 8080/Z80 Emulator [6].…”

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A Software Development Kit and Translation Layer for Executing Intel 8080 Assembler on a Quantum Computer (August 2022)

Fitzjohn

Winckles

Wilson

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. Quantum Eng.

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One of the major obstacles to the adoption of quantum computing is the requirement to define quantum circuits at the quantum gate level. Many programmers are familiar with high-level or lowlevel programming languages but not quantum gates nor the low-level quantum logic required to derive useful results from quantum computers. The steep learning curve involved when progressing from quantum gates to complex simulations such as Shor's algorithm has proven too much for many developers. The purpose of this paper and the software presented within, addresses this challenge by providing a Software Development Kit (SDK), translation layer, emulator and a framework of techniques for executing Intel 8080/Z80 assembler on a quantum computer, i.e. all salient points of CPU execution, logic, arithmetic and bitwise manipulation will be executed on the quantum computer using quantum circuits. This provides a novel means of displaying the equivalency and interoperability of quantum and classical computers. Developers and researchers can use the SDK to write code in Intel 8080/Z80 assembler which is executed locally via traditional emulation and remotely on a quantum computer in parallel. The emulator features side-by-side code execution with visibility of the running quantum circuit and re-usable/overridable methods. This enables programmers to learn, reuse and contrast techniques for performing any traditional CPU based technique/instruction on a quantum computer; e.g. a programmer may know how to multiply and perform checks on a classical CPU but is not able to perform the same tasks in a quantum implementation, this SDK allows the programmer to pick and choose the methods they would like to use to fulfil their requirements. The SDK makes use of open-source software, specifically Python and Qiskit for the emulation, translation, API calls and execution of user supplied code or binaries.

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A Software Development Kit and Translation Layer for Executing Intel 8080 Assembler on a Quantum Computer (August 2022)

Fitzjohn

Winckles

Wilson

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. Quantum Eng.

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“…That approach focused heavily on emulating the traditional CPU as closely as possible without prioritizing optimization. This work involved mimicking the CPUs functionality by constructing quantum circuit-based logic gates and rebuilding the CPU as it would be constructed "in silicon" [3]. In this paper we will again override the emulated CPU instructions, but this time the focus will be on improving e ciency, emulation and making better use of the capabilities of a quantum computer.…”

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An optimization of traditional CPU emulation techniques for execution on a quantum computer

FITZJOHN,

WILSON,

VICINANZA

2024

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The use and adoption of quantum computers by the wider computing community has been impeded by the need to adopt new programming techniques. These techniques involve moving from a high-level language where the programmer can define and manipulate objects, to a quantum model where the programmer defines and configures the circuits at a gate level. A jump too far for many. Previous work by the authors aimed to ease this transition through the use of a software development kit (Qx86 SDK) that emulates a traditional CPU for execution on a quantum computer which focused on delivering the capability. This paper now presents a number of new methods that extends and improves the SDKs capability. These methods include optimizing traditional logic gate emulation, multiple gate simplification methods, reducing the number of required qubits, and alternative optimized techniques for many CPU instructions. A quantum machine code mapping method is also described to propose the emulation of a traditional/quantum hybrid CPU prototype. Whilst still orders of magnitude slower than the performance of a traditional CPU in terms of arithmetic, logic and bitwise operations, execution speed is shown to be markedly improved (in some cases by more than 1,000%) and without introducing any unrealistic requirements (that is, all execution can be performed utilizing less than 32 qubits). The usefulness of the SDK has now been enhanced as a reference guide, where the programmer/researcher can contrast traditional methods vs multiple quantum methods of execution.

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Intel's 8086

Mazor¹

2010

IEEE Annals Hist. Comput.

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Intel 8080 CPU Chip Development

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

A Software Development Kit and Translation Layer for Executing Intel 8080 Assembler on a Quantum Computer (August 2022)

A Software Development Kit and Translation Layer for Executing Intel 8080 Assembler on a Quantum Computer (August 2022)

An optimization of traditional CPU emulation techniques for execution on a quantum computer

Intel's 8086

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