Architecture

As introduced in Overview, mahos system consists of nodes which are categorized into three layers as visualized below.

• Node, Client, and Communication
• inst layer
• meas layer
• gui layer

Overview of nodes in the layers

Package layout

The mahos sub-packages are structured correspondingly, as below.

• mahos.node - Base node implementations.

• mahos.msgs - Message type definitions.

• mahos.inst - Low-level drivers for instruments. InstrumentServer node provides RPC with unified API.

• mahos.meas - High-level measurement logics. (explicit state management and file I/O, etc.).

• mahos.gui - GUI frontends.

• mahos.cli - Command Line Interfaces.