Integration and Resource Estimation of Cryoelectronics for Superconducting Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers
Abstract
Scaling superconducting quantum computers to the fault-tolerant regime calls for a commensurate scaling of the classical control and readout stack. Today's systems largely rely on room-temperature, rack-based instrumentation connected to dilution-refrigerator cryostats through many coaxial cables. Looking ahead, superconducting fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQCs) will likely adopt a heterogeneous quantum-classical architecture that places selected electronics at cryogenic stages—for example, cryo-CMOS at 4 K and superconducting digital logic at 4 K and/or mK stages—to curb wiring and thermal-load overheads. This review distills key requirements, surveys representative room-temperature and cryogenic approaches, and provides a transparent first-order accounting framework for cryoelectronics. Using an RSA-2048-scale benchmark as a concrete reference point, we illustrate how scaling targets motivate constraints on multiplexing and stage-wise cryogenic power, and discuss implications for functional partitioning across room-temperature electronics, cryo-CMOS, and superconducting logic.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Quantum and electron transport phenomena
Quantum Information and Cryptography
Publication details
- Journal / source
- IEICE Transactions on Electronics
- Publisher
- Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE)
- Volume
- E109.C
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 512-520
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN