We'd like to add the ability to generate circuit diagrams from a Q# program.
These can appear in:
VS Code
Python notebooks
Python command line (ascii art)
Small programs without classical constructs (e.g. the Bell State sample) are fairly easy to generate diagrams for, but we'll have to figure how best to visualize more complex cases.
Design considerations:
How to represent classical constructs, such as loops, visually
Whether the circuit should map to the hardware behavior (i.e. closer to the generated QIR, showing auxiliary qubits, unrolled loops etc), or to the high level input Q# program
UI to visually map parts of the circuit to source code
For reference, Q# notebooks in the classic QDK had the ability to generate diagrams using the %trace magic and the quantum_viz Python package.
We'd like to add the ability to generate circuit diagrams from a Q# program.
These can appear in:
Small programs without classical constructs (e.g. the Bell State sample) are fairly easy to generate diagrams for, but we'll have to figure how best to visualize more complex cases.
Design considerations:
For reference, Q# notebooks in the classic QDK had the ability to generate diagrams using the
%trace
magic and thequantum_viz
Python package.