ArC TWO™ Control Panel

This is the frontend application for ArC TWO. It exposes functionality mostly related to crossbar configurations and provides a set of predefined experiments suitable for general and (P/R/FE)RAM devices characterisation.

Instructions

Installation

If you have a recent Python installer, stable ArC2Control versions are available from PyPI:

pip install arc2control

You can then run ArC2Control with:

python -m arc2control

Additionally, installers for Windows and AppImages for Linux are made periodically available from our releases page.

If you have git installed, you can also try out the latest development snapshot:

pip install git+https://github.com/arc-instruments/arc2control

Development

To develop on ArC2Control itself the recommended way to get started is by using a virtual environment. ArC2Control uses poetry to manage virtual environments. You might want to use a development version of pyarc2 as well although that's optional. We try to depend only on stable pre-built versions of pyarc2 but that's not guaranteed.

• [Optional] You will need a functional Rust toolchain.
• You will need a relatively new Python (≥ 3.8) and also have poetry installed (python -m pip install poetry). Pip must also be updated to at least version 20.x.
• Clone this repository and descend into it.
• Initialise the virtual environment: python -m poetry install. This only needs to be done once.
• [Optional] Update pyarc2 to the latest development snapshot which can easily be done with the included script poetry run python venv-pyarc2-update.py git+https://github.com/arc-instruments/pyarc2. This will download pyarc2 via git, build it and install it into the virtualenv.
• Run the setup script poetry run python setup.py build.
• Run ArC2Control poetry run python -m arc2control.

Custom modules

ArC2Control can be extended with custom experiment panels. An ArC2Control experiment module is a standalone Python module that includes the following in its __init__.py.

MOD_NAME = 'ModuleName'
MOD_DESCRIPTION = 'Description of said module'
MOD_TAG = 'MN' # a shorthand tag for the module
BUILT_IN = False

from .module import MainModule
# MainModule must derive from arc2control.modules.base.BaseModule`
ENTRY_POINT = MainModule

The built-in experiment modules are also built with the same infrastructure so they can be used as a scaffold to build your own.

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I found a bug!

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