QC Design has integrated its Plaquette platform with NVIDIA CUDA-Q Logical, announced on September 14, 2026. This integration allows for hardware-realistic fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) simulations by connecting high-level quantum error correction (QEC) circuit compilation with device-s
QC Design has integrated its Plaquette platform with NVIDIA CUDA-Q Logical, announced on September 14, 2026. This integration allows for hardware-realistic fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) simulations by connecting high-level quantum error correction (QEC) circuit compilation with device-specific physical noise models. This enables evaluation of QEC code structures under continuous non-Pauli noise models, addressing discrepancies in traditional FTQC resource estimation. An initial study showed a 0.2% leakage rate on two-qubit entangling gates degraded the fault-tolerant circuit noise threshold by approximately 60%. The post QC Design Integrates Plaquette Platform with NVIDIA CUDA-Q Logical for Hardware-Realistic FTQC Simulation appeared first on Quantum Computing Report .