APS Control Community 1.7.0

APS Control Community 1.7.0 adds a live Process tab to all three reference systems.

What is new

• Process tab for Sputter, ADS and Cluster. One screen shows the chamber, pressure and gas readings, power supplies, valves and drives, and the current recipe step.
  • ADS and Sputter: chamber schematic with flange sources, shutter and holder state, throttle and bias readings, valve groups.
  • Cluster: transfer module with the four process chambers and the load lock, per-chamber readings, sources and shutters, slit valves, pumps and robot position.
• Declarative panels. What each panel shows is set in a ProcessPanel.xml next to the profile's Panels.xml: reading rows (format, unit, log scale, colour), valve groups, drives. A new system needs no code. A bad entry is skipped and reported in the Events log, and the rest of the file still loads. Use Service, Reload GUI Config after editing.
• Fixes: after Reload GUI Config the Cluster panel keeps receiving data; Cluster tile numbers use . as the decimal separator on every system locale.

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"). Upgrading keeps a backup of your profiles in Backups\ and resets the three shipped profiles to the new versions. 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).