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Schedule

Schedule(*schedules, name=None)

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A quantum program schedule with exact time constraints for its instructions, operating over all input signal channels and supporting special syntaxes for building.

Create an empty schedule.

Parameters

  • *schedules – Child Schedules of this parent Schedule. May either be passed as the list of schedules, or a list of (start_time, schedule) pairs.
  • name (Optional[str]) – Name of this schedule. Defaults to an autogenerated string if not provided.

Attributes

channels

Tuple[qiskit.pulse.channels.Channel]

Returns channels that this schedule uses.

Return type

Tuple[Channel]

duration

int

Duration of this schedule component.

Return type

int

instances_counter

= count(0)

instructions

Get the time-ordered instructions from self.

ReturnType:

Tuple[Tuple[int, Instruction], …]

name

str

Name of ScheduleComponent.

Return type

str

prefix

= 'sched'

start_time

int

Starting time of this schedule component.

Return type

int

stop_time

int

Stopping time of this schedule component.

Return type

int

timeslots

Dict[qiskit.pulse.channels.Channel, List[Tuple[int, int]]]

Time keeping attribute.

Return type

Dict[Channel, List[Tuple[int, int]]]


Methods

append

Schedule.append(schedule, name=None)

Return a new schedule with schedule inserted at the maximum time over all channels shared between self and schedule.

t=max(x.stop_timexself.channelsschedule.channels)t = \textrm{max}(\texttt{x.stop\_time} |\texttt{x} \in \texttt{self.channels} \cap \texttt{schedule.channels})

Parameters

  • schedule (ScheduleComponent) – Schedule to be appended.
  • name (Optional[str]) – Name of the new Schedule. Defaults to name of self.

Return type

Schedule

ch_duration

Schedule.ch_duration(*channels)

Return the time of the end of the last instruction over the supplied channels.

Parameters

*channels – Channels within self to include.

Return type

int

ch_start_time

Schedule.ch_start_time(*channels)

Return the time of the start of the first instruction over the supplied channels.

Parameters

*channels – Channels within self to include.

Return type

int

ch_stop_time

Schedule.ch_stop_time(*channels)

Return maximum start time over supplied channels.

Parameters

*channels – Channels within self to include.

Return type

int

draw

Schedule.draw(dt=1, style=None, filename=None, interp_method=None, scale=None, channel_scales=None, channels_to_plot=None, plot_all=False, plot_range=None, interactive=False, table=True, label=False, framechange=True, scaling=None, channels=None, show_framechange_channels=True)

Plot the schedule.

Parameters

  • dt (float) – Time interval of samples.
  • style (Optional[SchedStyle]) – A style sheet to configure plot appearance.
  • filename (Optional[str]) – Name required to save pulse image.
  • interp_method (Optional[Callable]) – A function for interpolation.
  • scale (Optional[float]) – Relative visual scaling of waveform amplitudes, see Additional Information.
  • channel_scales (Optional[Dict[Channel, float]]) – Channel independent scaling as a dictionary of Channel object.
  • channels_to_plot (Optional[List[Channel]]) – Deprecated, see channels.
  • plot_all (bool) – Plot empty channels.
  • plot_range (Optional[Tuple[float]]) – A tuple of time range to plot.
  • interactive (bool) – When set true show the circuit in a new window (this depends on the matplotlib backend being used supporting this).
  • table (bool) – Draw event table for supported commands.
  • label (bool) – Label individual instructions.
  • framechange (bool) – Add framechange indicators.
  • scaling (Optional[float]) – Deprecated, see scale.
  • channels (Optional[List[Channel]]) – A list of channel names to plot.
  • show_framechange_channels (bool) – Plot channels with only framechanges.

Additional Information:

If you want to manually rescale the waveform amplitude of channels one by one, you can set channel_scales argument instead of scale. The channel_scales should be given as a python dictionary:

channel_scales = {pulse.DriveChannels(0): 10.0,
                  pulse.MeasureChannels(0): 5.0}

When the channel to plot is not included in the channel_scales dictionary, scaling factor of that channel is overwritten by the value of scale argument. In default, waveform amplitude is normalized by the maximum amplitude of the channel. The scaling factor is displayed under the channel name alias.

Returns

A matplotlib figure object of the pulse schedule.

Return type

matplotlib.Figure

exclude

Schedule.exclude(*filter_funcs, channels=None, instruction_types=None, time_ranges=None, intervals=None)

Return a Schedule with only the instructions from this Schedule failing at least one of the provided filters. This method is the complement of self.filter, so that:

self.filter(args) | self.exclude(args) == self

Parameters

  • filter_funcs (List[Callable]) – A list of Callables which take a (int, ScheduleComponent) tuple and return a bool.
  • channels (Optional[Iterable[Channel]]) – For example, [DriveChannel(0), AcquireChannel(0)].
  • instruction_types (Optional[Iterable[Type[qiskit.pulse.Instruction]]]) – For example, [PulseInstruction, AcquireInstruction].
  • time_ranges (Optional[Iterable[Tuple[int, int]]]) – For example, [(0, 5), (6, 10)].
  • intervals (Optional[Iterable[Tuple[int, int]]]) – For example, [(0, 5), (6, 10)].

Return type

Schedule

filter

Schedule.filter(*filter_funcs, channels=None, instruction_types=None, time_ranges=None, intervals=None)

Return a new Schedule with only the instructions from this Schedule which pass though the provided filters; i.e. an instruction will be retained iff every function in filter_funcs returns True, the instruction occurs on a channel type contained in channels, the instruction type is contained in instruction_types, and the period over which the instruction operates is fully contained in one specified in time_ranges or intervals.

If no arguments are provided, self is returned.

Parameters

  • filter_funcs (List[Callable]) – A list of Callables which take a (int, ScheduleComponent) tuple and return a bool.
  • channels (Optional[Iterable[Channel]]) – For example, [DriveChannel(0), AcquireChannel(0)].
  • instruction_types (Optional[Iterable[Type[qiskit.pulse.Instruction]]]) – For example, [PulseInstruction, AcquireInstruction].
  • time_ranges (Optional[Iterable[Tuple[int, int]]]) – For example, [(0, 5), (6, 10)].
  • intervals (Optional[Iterable[Tuple[int, int]]]) – For example, [(0, 5), (6, 10)].

Return type

Schedule

flatten

Schedule.flatten()

Return a new schedule which is the flattened schedule contained all instructions.

Return type

Schedule

insert

Schedule.insert(start_time, schedule, name=None)

Return a new schedule with schedule inserted into self at start_time.

Parameters

  • start_time (int) – Time to insert the schedule.
  • schedule (ScheduleComponent) – Schedule to insert.
  • name (Optional[str]) – Name of the new schedule. Defaults to the name of self.

Return type

Schedule

shift

Schedule.shift(time, name=None)

Return a new schedule shifted forward by time.

Parameters

  • time (int) – Time to shift by.
  • name (Optional[str]) – Name of the new schedule. Defaults to the name of self.

Return type

Schedule

union

Schedule.union(*schedules, name=None)

Return a new schedule which is the union of both self and schedules.

Parameters

  • *schedules – Schedules to be take the union with this Schedule.
  • name (Optional[str]) – Name of the new schedule. Defaults to the name of self.

Return type

Schedule

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