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Software control infrastructure known to be in use on ion trap experiments:

Name	Origin	Link	Comment
ARTIQ	M-Labs, NIST Boulder, 2013-present	github
HFGui	NIST Ion Storage, 2002-2017		No active development. Migrating to ARTIQ/Sinara.
Aluminizer	NIST Ion Storage, 2006-present	github	Written by Till Rosenband. Used in the ion clock lab at NIST and maintained there by David Leibrandt.
Ion Control	Duke, Sandia, 2008-present	github	Written and maintained by Peter Maunz at Sandia. Also used by Monroe lab at UMD and Kim lab at Duke. Limited active development by Sandia.
M-ACTION	ETH Zurich	Vlad's Thesis Mentioned in this paper
LabRad	UCSB ??-present	github AMOLabRAD LabRAD Tools	Originally developed by the Martinis Lab at UCSB for superconducting experiments. AMOLabRAD and LabRAD tools are part of an effort by Haeffner Lab at Berkeley to use LabRAD in ion trap setups. Limited active development.
TRiCS (Trapped Ion Control System)	Innsbruck	Mentioned briefly in thesis1, thesis2 and thesis3	Developed by in-house programmer in Blatt lab at Innsbruck. Also used by the Hennrich lab in Stockholm. No public source. Little active development.
MasterControlProgram [MCP]	University Kassel		Developed be Kilian Singer. No public source known.
Pulse Sequencer	MIT 2002-2010	WBM WP	Designed by Paul Pham. No active development
The Cicero Word Generator	MIT Ketterle lab -2012	arXiv github	designed to use National Instruments output cards (6713 and 6534); uses shared clock for synchronization; "100 ns time resolution"; Cicero is GUI; component that interfaces with hardware is called Atticus; no support for closed-loop feedback or low-latency branching; last github commit 6 years ago, no commits to forks
LabView	National Instruments		Pretty much the current default option, with many ion trap groups using it.
QCoDeS	Delft	github

Other software control infrastructure for (quantum) science:

Name	Origin	Link	Comment
Labber	2015	labber.org	Relies on 3rd party vendor's support for deterministic timing. No support for closed-loop feedback or low-latency branching.
QITKAT	Oak Ridge	DOI	Software-defined quantum communication systems
ZIO			A software framework for Linux device drivers aimed at supporting controls and data acquisition hardware. ZIO supports sub-nanosecond timestamps, block-oriented input and output and transport of meta-data with the data samples.
LabScript		labscriptsuite.org DOI

Control system hardware (and related) for quantum information experiments.

Name	Link	Comment
Sinara	github	open source hardware for ARTIQ
Quantum Labber (now Keysight)	website
quTAU	qutau	8 channel, 81 ps TDC
StelarIP	4dsp.com	tool for combining gateware IP developed by 4dsp.com
Swabian Instruments	swabianinstruments.com	Mainly aimed at photonics
Raytheon BBN (now IBM)	arXiv paper
LiquidLab	liquidinstruments.com	Similar hardware to Stabilizer/Fast_Servo
Houke (Princeton)	arxiv
LabRAD hardware	DOI
Easy Phi	link	no activity on github since 2014
M-ACTION Hardware (ETH Zurich Ion Group)	Vlad's Thesis, Mentioned in this thesis	Developed in the Home Lab at ETH Zurich. Being adopted by Blatt lab at Innsbruck.
Zurich Instruments	Website	They propose here that their SC qubit hardware can be used for ion trapping. No known users. Per channel cost of their AWGs is probably too high to run a lab full of AOMs off.
CIQTEK	website	Chinese company producing quantum control hardware
Quantum Machines	website	Israeli company producing quantum control hardware