Gustavo Cancelo, senior scientist at Fermilab near Chicago talks about QICK, the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit, an open source platform developed at Fermilab that has become a widely adopted tool for quantum control and readout across four continents.

The Department of Energy has been supporting basic research in 1985 has set the foundation for today’s quantum technology.

The Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit known as QICK, is an RF control and readout system developed by engineers at Fermilab in collaboration with university research groups and industry partners, with the firmware, software, and hardware fully open source.

Qblox announced a formalized CRADA alongside a full commercial licensing structure to manage the U.S. manufacturing, domestic supply chain coordination, and commercial distribution of the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit developed by Fermilab.

WIRED interviews Anna Grassellino, a Sicilian physicist at Fermilab, leading the research and development for next-generation quantum computers.