System-level design tools for quantum control
Coherence Engine is building a platform to help quantum teams design, simulate and optimise the control stack behind utility-scale quantum systems.
Quantum computing is entering a new phase. As systems become more ambitious, the control stack becomes a critical engineering challenge in its own right.
Teams need to make decisions about architecture, signal paths, timing, integration, coordination, and scale long before a full system exists in hardware. Today, much of that work is still fragmented across tools, teams and experimental workflows.
Coherence Engine is being built to address that gap.
Our aim is to provide a system-level design environment for quantum control, helping teams think more clearly about the behaviour and implications of control architectures before committing time, budget and effort in the lab.
A new engineering layer for quantum systems
As quantum systems grow, the challenge is no longer just building better qubits. It is about designing, coordinating, and scaling the electronics, timing, firmware, and system architecture around them. We are building Coherence Engine to help teams reason about those decisions earlier, with more confidence and less reliance on costly hardware-led iteration.
Become a design partner
We are currently working with a small number of early partners to shape the first generation of the platform.
Why this matters
In mature engineering disciplines, complex systems are designed before they are built. Simulation, architecture trade-offs and system modelling help teams reduce risk, improve decisions and move faster.
Quantum control has not yet fully made that transition.
For many teams, key design questions are still answered late, through real hardware integration and repeated experimentation. That may be workable for small systems and research setups. It becomes much harder as systems scale in complexity, performance requirements and cost.
We believe the industry needs a new class of design tools that bring more engineering discipline to the control stack.
What we’re building
Coherence Engine is being developed as a platform for system-level quantum control design.
At a high level, the platform is intended to help teams:
explore control architecture choices earlier
reason about interactions across the control stack
identify potential bottlenecks before hardware build and integration
capture reusable engineering knowledge across programmes and teams
Rather than focusing on a single component or narrow workflow, our approach is to support a broader view of the control system as an engineered whole.
This is not about replacing experimental work. It is about helping teams make better decisions before that work becomes expensive, slow or difficult to change.
The platform at a glance
AnalogLab
AnalogLab is being developed as a system-level design environment for reasoning about analogue, RF and broader control-chain behaviour in quantum hardware stacks. The goal is to help teams think more clearly about how signals, components and architectural choices interact before those decisions are locked into expensive hardware and integration work.
DigitalLab
DigitalLab is being developed to address the digital side of the control challenge: timing, coordination, orchestration and the behaviour of the classical systems that sit around and above the quantum hardware.
As quantum systems grow, the digital control layer becomes increasingly important. Questions of timing, responsiveness, data movement, coordination between subsystems, and interaction with wider compute infrastructure become more central to overall system performance. These are not just implementation details. They are architecture questions.
Automate
Automate will help teams make better use of the models, workflows and engineering knowledge captured across Coherence Engine, reducing manual effort and supporting more efficient exploration of complex design choices.
Who are we building for
Coherence Engine is being shaped for teams working on the engineering reality behind scalable quantum systems.
Quantum Hardware Companies
Control & System engineering teams
Architecture teams
If your work involves the design, integration or scaling of quantum control systems, this is the problem space we are focused on.
Become a design partner
We are working with a small number of early partners to help shape the future of quantum control design.
If you are building next-generation quantum systems and want to explore a more structured approach to architecture, control and scale, we would be glad to hear from you.
