If you reached this page you either have an ArC Instruments characterisation tool, want to develop software for one or both! If you are new to ArC Instruments tools read on, otherwise the main repositories are further down this page 👇

If you have an ArC ONE your first stop would be to download and install our ArC ONE Control Panel application (ArC1PyQT). You can use it right out of the box to characterise two-terminal devices.

A comprehensive manual is available to better familiarise yourself with your ArC ONE.

If the built-in functionality is not enough you can develop your own experiments. ArC1PyQT comes with SuperMode which allows you to combine different experiments in one seamless workflow. Alternatively you can get on with developing your own experiment panels. ArC1PyQT built-in modules are built with the same infrastructure so dive-in the code to get started.

For automated or headless applications we provide libarc1 which is a Python library that exposes most of the tool's functionality.

If you have our latest and greatest tool it is recommended that you read through our user guide to familiarise yourself with ArC TWO. Beyond that, ArC2Control is built with similar goals in mind as ArC1PyQT. It will allow you to start experimenting with two-terminal DUTs. Refer to our documentation for a quick start guide. ArC2Control is itself extensible with custom experiment panels. If that interests you check our developer's documentation.

Although ArC2Control is built for two-terminal crossbar DUTs in mind ArC TWO itself is a much more flexible tool. If you want to tailor the capabilities of ArC TWO for your own bespoke experiments we recommend that you do so through pyarc2, the Python library which exposes all the low-level functionality of ArC TWO. ArC2Control itself is built on pyarc2. To get started check our docs.

All of our public repositories have a discussion board so if you have a question for any specific component feel free to open a topic.