The MEMS and Nanotechnology Exchange has developed the following open source software packages.

The MNX welcomes inquiries about software development projects past, present, and future. In particular, if you are looking for fabrication lab management/documentation system customized for your needs, please contact us.

Web and other tools

Durus

Durus offers an easy way to maintain a consistent persistent collection of object instances used by one or more processes. This is the object database that we use with Dulcinea applications.

Qpy

Qpy is a new tool for generating HTML.

QP

QP is a new site management package for web applications that use Durus and Qpy.

Quixote

A simple but powerful Web development framework for Python programmers.

Dulcinea

Dulcinea is a collection of modules useful for developing applications with QP and Durus.

Sancho

A unit testing framework for Python.

Instrument-related tools from MX

Remote Microscope

The Remote Microscope is a client/server system for remote access to a semiconductor inspection microscope.

PXC200 Support for PIL

The pxc200 module adds support for the ImageNation PXC-200 frame grabber to the Python Imaging Library, using Alessandro Rubini's driver for Linux.

secs_i.py

secs_i.py is an implementation of the SEMI Equipment Control Standard I, written for the Remote Microscope system but useful separately.