Lesson 012: Transpilation trade-off matrices
Focus
Assume every diagram must map to topology and basis gates—not textbook abstractions alone. Token Transpilation trade-off matrices:12 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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554959. - Habit: pair each job with shot budget, mitigation profile, and a calibration fingerprint you could paste.
- Guardrail: write one line about where classical cost dominated the timeline.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Transpilation checklist
- [ ] basis translation logged for `rz-sx vs native`
- [ ] SWAP count vs manual estimate delta noted
- [ ] layout seed `S-511`
Rollback triggers: CX depth > THRESH-148 OR queue SLA breach without mitigation flip.
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 12 Bump literals mindset by 14.