iControl MBE control and automation system

iControl is an integrated control system for molecular beam epitaxy and industrial automation. It is easy to use, yet fully programmable to master even eccentric automation tasks with ease.

iControl offers direct access to any connected device similar to lab automation software. At the same time, however, it has a built-in real-time programming language that offer you extreme flexibility where the graphical approach of lab automation software often leads to bloated and cryptic charts that are hard to manage. It is therefore the ideal tool for demanding research environments where both flexibility and performance are required.

iControl runs on Linux and Windows and controls all hardware through ethernet connections. It runs on practically any computer from laptop through fanless boxes without moving parts to powerful server hardware. All device drivers are open source and can be extended and modified by the user.

Due to its flexibility, iControl is ideally suited to retrofit existing heterogeneous systems, controlling a mix of components from almost any vendor.