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Add support for fine_delay in QTM instructions

Explanation of changes

Add arguments fine_start_delay_ps and fine_end_delay_ps to certain operations that can run on a QTM. These delays do not affect the scheduled time, they only affect an argument in the final Q1ASM instruction, which can shift the actual execution of the instruction by a small amount of time.

Other solutions that were considered and rejected were:

  • Allow MarkerPulse and TriggerCount to have sub-ns start times and durations: this would be very difficult to implement, and might break existing code that tries to align operations on a 1 ns grid.
  • New operations specifically for the QTM: easy to implement, but slightly harder to find for users, and might cause confusion with the existing operations.

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  • New code is covered by unit tests (or N/A).
  • New code is documented and docstrings use numpydoc format (or N/A).
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  • Tested on hardware (or N/A).
  • CHANGELOG.md for breaking changes and AUTHORS.md have been updated (or N/A).
  • Update Hardware backends documentation if backend interface change or N/A
  • Check whether performance is significantly affected by looking at the Performance metrics results.
  • Windows tests in CI pipeline pass (manually triggered by maintainers before merging).
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Edited by Gábor Oszkár Dénes

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