Software Installation

introduction installation of amics 5 1 0 includes the following suite of software amics tools provide an application for the initial setup of the eds and sem hardware system communication, and control the amics software license amics investigator application for setting up and running data acquisition from connected hardware, and access to editing of the of material characterization method (mcm) amics process application for manipulation and reduction of acquired data from the acquisition software amics reports application for offline multi data visualization and classification the amics reports have a separate manual, docid\ sz1z50d9ihsh0suprvszp (optional) amics terrarium python package will install the standard amics python environment, including an updated primary layer image correction and nist mist stitching script this is separate installation the amics 5 1 0 installation package is a single executable file (amics 5 1 0 setup 64 exe) that automatically installs the three applications upon execution amics will also check to ensure the correct and required version of the c++ library has been installed; if not, the required version will be installed at the end of the installation process note if an updated version of the c++ distribution library is installed during the amics installation process, the pc must be rebooted for these changes to be saved and made available for amics this version of amics can be installed in parallel with older software versions however, it is important that it is installed with an account with administrator privileges to ensure that all files are installed correctly note! it is important that once amics is installed as an administrator each user of the amics system installed on a specific pc has full access (read and write) to the "c \programdata\amics" folder it is important that amics tools be opened after each fresh install this will build and repair the user database hardware compatibility and requirements item minimum requirement recommended operating system amics is compatible with windows 7 and windows 10 when connected to a sem amics offline is compatible with windows 7, 10, and 11 windows 10 or 11 is suggested for offline use windows 10 is suggested for online use unless otherwise specified by the hardware manufacture memory amics required 16 gb of ram it is recommended to use at least 32 gb of ram storage a local hdd, not connected through a network drive, is required for amics data collection and processing a local ssd, not connected through a network drive, is required for amics data collection and processing system type 64 bit operating system and x64 based processor processing intel i3 1 30 ghz chipset or equivalent intel i7 2 60 ghz chipset equivalent or better scanning electron microscopes or micro xrf hitachi tm4000, hitachi flexsem ii 1000, hitachi su3900, hitachi su5000, hitachi su7000, bruker m4 tornado detectors single bruker generation 7 30mm or 60mm ssd x ray detectors or single bruker q80 30mm or 60mm compact ssd x ray detectors (flexsem) dual, triple or quad generation 7 60mm ssd x ray detectors or dual bruker q80 30mm or 60mm compact ssd x ray detectors (flexsem) amics also requires the installation of the latest version of bruker espirt software suite, with the following license components active espirt core espirt stagecontrol espirt api on older espirt versions, the espirt core component is broken up into fourteen (14) individual components, including quant , equant, uquant, scan, line, map, multipoint , report, remotelink, user, project, hypermap, and tchart for amics to work, aside from stagecontrol and api, the critical components required from espirt core are those in bold in the above list it also should be noted that on newer versions of esprit, esprit core will include stagecontrol, and so only esprit api needs to be added as a separate component note! amics and espirt should be installed on a pc separate from the pc controlling the sem, and the amics and espirt pc should be ordered and supplied by bruker to ensure full compatibility the only exception is for flexsem ii 1000 or tm 4000 system, which will have amics, esprit and sem software installed onto the same pc supplied by hitachi basic software installation once you run the executable installation file the first pop up screen will ask where you want to install the software the software will be installed into "c \program files\amics 5 1" version 5 will work in parallel with older versions; this install location will ensure the older versions are not overwritten however, if you plan to install different builds or sub versions of amics 5, ensure the previous install folder has been renamed to avoid overwriting it to start the installation, click the "install" button, and amics 5 1 0 will start the installation, with a new pop up window showing the progress of the installation upon completion of the installation a new pop up windows giving the option to launch tools, investigator or process when exiting the installation process the installation is now complete, and the installation application can be exited by clicking the "finish" button amics license request and activation amics 5 1 0 requires a license linked to the computer hardware, so permits cannot be interchanged with amics installation instances on different computers if amics 5 1 0 has been installed over or in parallel with another version of amics, with a valid license, amics 5 1 0 will recognize this license, and nothing further will need to be completed otherwise, in the case of a fresh installation, a new permit will need to be acquired before all functions and applications become available using the amics tool application, a new amics license can be requested for the measurement system or an offline data processing system either the 32 bit or 64 bit version of the amics tool can be used once you run the amics tool application, you can access the license request/activation window by selecting the "license" button at the top menu bar in the case of a fresh build, the amics license info pop up window will allow for the request for a new license by clicking the "apply" button if you have already received a permit, activate it by clicking the "activate" button new amics license application to apply for a new license firstly click the "apply" button on the new amics license info window this will bring up a new license application pop up window, containing the hardware code automatically, which is created based on the physical hardware installed on the computer it should be noted that if at a later date, changes are made to the system hardware, this may invalidate the hardware code requiring a new license any username, longer than five characters, can be used on this new pop up screen it would be suggested to use a username that indicates which computer the license is for, such as "su3900 amics online" to indicate the permit for an amics installation on a hitachi su3900 using the drop down menu, it is also possible to request either an "online" measurement system install or "offline" data processing install license once a username has been entered and the correct license type has been selected, the option to "save to file" will become available a standard save file interface will open to save the license request text file this text file needs to be sent to the local amics service and support contact to have a license created and sent back, so it is essential to remember where this text file is saved activating amics license once a license for amics has been received for the fresh install, return to the amics license info windows, as per the instructions above this time, by clicking the "activate" button, a standard file open window will pop up, which can be used to navigate to the license file received once the correct license file has been selected by clicking the "open" button, this license will be activated to install amics on this computer system the amics license info window will then be updated with the active license, containing information on the license type (online or offline), the username as defined during the request, and the license's expiration date note due to the change in the number of x ray channels in version 5, the "classify zero peak (ev)" and the "background level" settings in process settings must be updated it is suggested that the "classify zero peak (ev)" be set to around '380', which will remove the artificial zero peak and the carbon peak from the matching the "background level" should be set to "15 " these values are suggestions that will allow amics 5 to function similarly to amics 3; however, alternative values can be used as required however, it is important to note that constant changes to these values will change the matching quality and, therefore, the final results therefore, it is highly advised that these values be set once and not changed, or a note as to the change needs to be made to allow for repeatability of classification