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My Senior Design Project Proposal

Hi everyone, I decided to share what I am going to be working on for the next academic year as my senior project. The name of the project is RF-FPGA Qubit State Readout System.The goal of the project is to create a classical system that simulates the process of reading the state of a qubit using RF and digital hardware.

The process starts with an input command, which a microcontroller will translate into a low frequency digital signal. This digital signal then triggers a microwave pulse generator to create a precise, high frequency analog pulse. This analog signal is routed by a microwave circulator to a qubit simulator circuit. This circuit is supposed to mimic the behavior of a real qubit and modify the signal based on its state. A circulator will then direct the faint, modified signal to an FPGA which will behave as a readout processor. The FPGA digitizes and analyzes this signal to determine the simulated qubit's state (0 or 1), which it sends back to the Raspberry Pi to be logged and displayed for the user.

Please let me know what you guys think about this project. I am very excited to be doing it!

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