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title: LayerSynthesisClifford (v1.0)
description: API reference for qiskit.transpiler.passes.synthesis.high_level_synthesis.LayerSynthesisClifford in qiskit v1.0
source: https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/api/qiskit/1.0/qiskit.transpiler.passes.synthesis.high_level_synthesis.LayerSynthesisClifford
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# LayerSynthesisClifford

*class* `qiskit.transpiler.passes.synthesis.high_level_synthesis.LayerSynthesisClifford`

[GitHub](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/tree/stable/1.0/qiskit/transpiler/passes/synthesis/high_level_synthesis.py#L676-L687)

Bases: [`HighLevelSynthesisPlugin`](/docs/api/qiskit/1.0/qiskit.transpiler.passes.synthesis.plugin.HighLevelSynthesisPlugin "qiskit.transpiler.passes.synthesis.plugin.HighLevelSynthesisPlugin")

Clifford synthesis plugin based on the Bravyi-Maslov method to synthesize Cliffords into layers.

This plugin name is :`clifford.layers` which can be used as the key on an [`HLSConfig`](/docs/api/qiskit/1.0/qiskit.transpiler.passes.HLSConfig "qiskit.transpiler.passes.synthesis.high_level_synthesis.HLSConfig") object to use this method with [`HighLevelSynthesis`](/docs/api/qiskit/1.0/qiskit.transpiler.passes.HighLevelSynthesis "qiskit.transpiler.passes.synthesis.high_level_synthesis.HighLevelSynthesis").

## Methods

### run

`run(high_level_object, coupling_map=None, target=None, qubits=None, **options)`

[GitHub](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/tree/stable/1.0/qiskit/transpiler/passes/synthesis/high_level_synthesis.py#L684-L687)

Run synthesis for the given Clifford.