QASM -> Yao IR

[Roger-luo]

• QASM AST design
• move QASM parser from RBNF
• Yao IR codegen

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• Test IBM openqasm examples
• Test IBM Q (manually?)

[GiggleLiu]

About Yao IR, we should probably first define basic blocks to remove "redundant" information in representation, then any circuit can be flatten to these basic blocks. e.g. we can first flatten a block to basic blocks like

• RepeatedBlock -> KronBlock
• KronBlock -> PutBlock

Basic block types should include

• PutBlock
• ChainBlock (a function in QASM)
• Concentrator (a subroutine defined on a subset of a register)
• all primitive gates
• ControlBlock

This will make it much easier for compiling, any comments?

[Roger-luo]

yes, that's what I think as well. And I think in most cases we only need PutBlock since Kron can be composition of PutBlock, since QASM is mainly just putting gates at given position, this would be straight forward.

[thautwarm]

Done except for barrier, reset and measure. Waiting for Liu to provide correspoinding Yao APIs.