diff --git a/hardware/simulations/requirements.txt b/hardware/simulations/requirements.txt
index e0d655b..f0cbb94 100644
--- a/hardware/simulations/requirements.txt
+++ b/hardware/simulations/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ decorator==4.3.0
 entrypoints==0.2.3
 html5lib==1.0.1
 ipykernel==4.8.2
-ipython==6.4.0
+ipython==7.16.3
 ipython-genutils==0.2.0
 ipywidgets==7.2.1
 jedi==0.12.1