APS Control Community 1.6.3

First public release of APS Control Community: the open Control application, the Emulator and the MCP bridge for agent access, with three reference deposition systems.

Contents

• Control and Emulator (bin\) with the open hardware, GUI and worker plugins.
• Three profiles (Configs\): Sputter (single-chamber batch coater), ADS (main chamber with load lock, five sources, rotary holder and shutter), Cluster (transfer module, load lock and four process chambers). The Emulator simulates all devices over loopback TCP: no serial ports, no drivers, no licence file.
• MCP bridge (mcp\APS.Mcp.exe) and the opt-in script Enable agent access (Start menu). The agent server is off until you run the script.

Requirements

Windows 10 or 11 (x64) and the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime. The installer does not include .NET.

Install

Download ControlCommunitySetup-<version>.exe and SHA256SUMS.txt, check the hash with Get-FileHash, and run the installer. It installs for the current user and does not need administrator rights. The installer is not code-signed; Windows SmartScreen can show a warning ("More info", then "Run anyway"). First start, upgrade behaviour and agent access: see Install in the README.

Cite

If you use this software in research, cite the preprint in CITATION.cff (arXiv:2609.12796).