ArC TWO User’s guide

ArC TWO is the next generation electronic characterisation tool which enables massive parallel testing of devices with arbitrary interconnections. It is a generalised versatile multi-SMU tool with an integrated switch matrix. It can achieve sub-100 ns pulsing across 20 V of voltage.

See also

This document is the introductory documentation for end users to start using their ArC TWO. You might also be looking for documentation on the 🐍 pyarc2 python library or the 🖥️ ArC TWO Control GUI Application.

Contents of this guide

User guide

• The ArC TWO Platform
  • High-level description of ArC TWO
  • Minimum system requirements
  • Getting started
  • Interacting with ArC TWO
• System specifications
  • Reading operations
  • Programming operations
  • Operation intervals
  • Programmable I/O
  • Crossbar management
• The daughterboard interface
  • The hardware interface
  • Daughterboard pinouts and channel allocations
• ArC TWO protocol
  • Introduction
  • List of supported instructions