EE290 – Superconducting Quantum Circuits (aka “Quantum Tapeout”)
Fall 2025 Course website: https://qudev.notion.site/ee290
The course covers fundamentals and computer-aided design of superconducting quantum circuits. The course website includes references, lecture notes, homeworks, and simulation lab assignments. We hope these materials will be self-contained enough to introduce interested engineers and physicists to the field.
Assumed background: Upper-division E&M and Quantum Mechanics.
For feedback or requests for materials: alp@berkeley.edu.
Course description: In 15 weeks, we will design a superconducting quantum circuit and test it! For the first offering of this class, each team will submit a superconducting qubit design capable of single qubit control and dispersive state readout using circuit quantum electrodynamics. The challenging goal is to learn microwave engineering and quantum optics principles for superconducting qubits, use finite element analysis and CAD software to design the circuits, and submit a design in 10 weeks! The submitted designs will be fabricated at Berkeley, and you will get to test the circuits by the end of the term.
Acknowledgements: NSF Challenge Institution for Quantum Computation and UC Berkeley EECS department for supporting the development of this course.