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Vintage Paperback - Kothar Of The Magic Sword by Gardner F. Fox

Art by Jeffrey Catherine Jones

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My dragonborn sorcerer, Kothar. He's a fat himbo who was made in a vat by an alchemist. He has two dads who live in the typical "rich old eccentric and his Butler" type relationship.

Jeffrey Catherine Jones, cover illustration for Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman, by Gardner F. Fox (Leisure Books, 1973). Oil on board, 36 x 22 inches.

Lyla was grooming the newly acquired male. The day has already seemed long. From leaving the estate to traveling with her son to Aria, Chasing him through the forest, placing a man to death and sparing another. The woman had decided to give this man a new life, his punishment is knowing that a nobleman died because of his actions, and the guilt of receiving her hospitality. Lyla had finished grooming the man's beard and hair, a skill acquired from many failed marriages in her lifetime. 

Nanoacademic and Kothar introduce the first Quantum Electronic Design Automation Suite.

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Kothar Computing and Nanoacademic Technologies Inc. entered a historic strategic agreement to build the first Quantum Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software suite. This October 30, 2025, initiative intends to make quantum chip production easier to convert from physics-driven to reproducible and engineering-driven. This EDA package reflects the fundamental revolution that altered the semiconductor industry.

A single toolchain for modelling, improving, and scaling superconducting and semiconductor spin qubit quantum circuits is the collaboration's main goal. This collaborative platform intends to industrialise quantum hardware design and prepare scalable, foundry-ready quantum computers.

Creating Quantum EDA

The partnership introduces Quantum EDA. EDA suite, a simulation and design platform, lets researchers and engineers model, optimise, and scale next-generation quantum circuits. Nanoacademic and Kothar are providing this unified toolkit to help the quantum sector transition from lab devices to industrial-scale chip design.

The semiconductor industry relies on EDA, so this effort is critical. Félix Beaudoin, CEO of Nanoacademic Technologies, noted that quantum computers will require circuits with thousands or millions of qubits. There are no EDA systems that can represent quantum devices at this scale.

The collaboration allows chipmakers to virtually develop, test, and validate quantum devices. Virtual validation will reduce physical fabrication risk and cost.

Core Technology Integration: A Unified Toolchain

The final solution integrates two key features to blend both businesses' strengths:

One of the primary producers of quantum technology digital simulation and modelling tools is Nanoacademic Technologies. QTCAD (Quantum TCAD) provides high-resolution TCAD for device-level modelling and physics-based simulation. This approach simulates semiconductor devices, materials, and spin or superconducting qubits in high detail.

Kothar's Quantum Symbolic Algebra Engine: Kothar Computing builds next-generation scientific computing tools to revolutionise problem modelling, description, and solution. Kothar offers FORGE, the Quantum Symbolic Algebra Engine, to solve complex quantum systems. This engine speeds simulations with numerical frameworks and many-body solvers. Most crucially, Kothar solves Nanoacademic's QTCAD models quickly enough to make quantum computer design interactive. The engine's interactive computational physics environment speeds design and analysis.

The unified suite will let designers construct and model quantum processors, efficiently translating complex physical models into performance data.

Breaking the Chicken-and-Egg Bottleneck

Kothar Computing CEO Jonathan Riddell calls the quantum industry's simulation tool shortage a 'chicken-and-egg conundrum'. Current classical tools cannot reproduce the sophisticated quantum many-body physics involved, making it difficult for the quantum community to build quantum computers to simulate tough quantum issues, Riddell added.

Riddell claims hardware design is hampered by highly linked quantum material simulation. This constraint has slowed chemistry, physics, and materials research.

The new Quantum EDA software should solve this simulation problem. For this, Kothar's Quantum Symbolic Algebra Engine interfaces directly with Nanoacademic's TCAD layer. This integration lets you simulate larger, more sophisticated systems and quantum systems orders of magnitude faster. Therefore, scientists can now swiftly model the compact model of a quantum processor and the atomic-level behaviour of individual qubits.

The parties compared the partnership to the turning point in traditional computing when TCAD and EDA technologies allowed transistors to grow from hundreds to billions. Spin qubits are particularly promising for developing practical quantum computers due to their compact size, low error rates, and compatibility with conventional silicon foundries.

Academic Approvals and Next Steps

Academic specialists that use the technology recommend these advanced simulation tools. Dr. Mark Kamper Svendsen, Assistant Professor and Group Leader at the Niels Bohr Institute, said QTCAD lets researchers simulate and refine qubit designs before production. This reduces costly lab trial-and-error and speeds discovery. Dr. Svendsen believes quantitatively precise predictions are essential for translating theoretical notions into quantum device designs for scalable quantum processing.

Vincent Philippe Michal, an assistant professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, was optimistic about the partnership's quantum EDA progress, seeing it as the next important step to scaling the technology.