SiQAD Documentation

SiQAD (Silicon Quantum Atomic Designer) is a CAD tool that enables the design and simulation of silicon dangling bond (DB) circuits through an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) and a modular simulation back-end. The tool currently offers simulators that predict ground-state and dynamic electron configuration of given DB configurations, and electrostatics simulation given electrode layouts. There are a few key resources available:

• Feel free to join our official Slack team for SiQAD-related discussion and support!

• Please read the SiQAD publication on IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (open access) for a detailed introduction to the tool and simulators. A separate conference paper detailing our electrostatic landscape solver, PoisSolver, is also available. If you would like a detailed discussion on platform technology from the physical implementation level to prospective applications in machine learning acceleration, please check out Samuel S. H. Ng’s Master’s thesis.

• Please read the Basic Tutorial to familiarize with basic SiQAD features through a step-by-step tutorial.

• The Walus Lab website contains information about us and other projects that we work on.

Getting Started:

• Installation
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS
• Basic Tutorial
  • Common Operations
  • OR_Mod Ground State Finding Example

Details:

• GUI Overview
  • Design Panel Modes and Features
    • Design Mode
    • Screenshot Mode
    • Simulation Visualization Mode
  • Simulation Job
  • Simulation Visualization
  • Exporting and Importing Simulation Results
• Ground State Charge Config Finders
  • Ground State Model
    • ExhaustiveGS
    • SimAnneal
    • QUBO Mapping
    • Interpreting Results
    • Time-to-solution Benchmarks
  • Inter-plugin Transfer
• Charge Dynamics
  • HoppingDynamics
• Electrostatic Landscape
  • PoisSolver

Development:

• Coming Soon

Resources:

• Bibliography
• Design Files Repo
• SiQAD GitHub Repo
• Public Slack Team

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page