EPICS - Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

EPICS Home Page

EPICS is a set of Open Source software tools, libraries and applications developed collaboratively and used worldwide to create distributed soft real-time control systems for scientific instruments such as a particle accelerators, telescopes and other large scientific experiments.

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Home: EPICS Home at APS
News: Recent news
- Meetings: Collaboration meeting details
About: What is EPICS anyway?
- 10 Things ...: Ten Really Neat Things About EPICS
- Getting Started: Getting Started with EPICS, a series of lectures from APS
- Contacts: Who's who, and how to contact them
Base: The core EPICS software for both IOCs and Host tools
- R3.14: Recent portable releases
  - R3.14.11: The latest release, hot off the press!
  - R3.14.10: The last stable release
  - R3.14.9: The previous stable release
  - Old drvs: Device/driver support from R3.13, not found in R3.14
- R3.13: Frozen, still used in a few places
- R3.12: Older versions, frozen but possibly still used somewhere
- R3.11: Ancient history
- Tornado: Information about using vxWorks 5.x with EPICS
  - PowerPC: Some differences between vxWorks on 68K and PowerPC
  - T20xConfig: Instructions on configuring vxWorks for use with EPICS
- RTEMS: Information about running EPICS using RTEMS
  - Tutorial: Getting started with EPICS on RTEMS
- MS Win32: Building EPICS on Microsoft Windows
  - MSVCTk: Using the free (beer) Microsoft C++ Compiler
- Download: EPICS Base Downloads
- Statistics: Development statistics from CVS
Modules: Optional support code for IOCs - drivers etc.
- Soft Support: IOC software that isn't real-world I/O
  - Add New: Add your entry to the Soft Support database
- H/W by Bus,: Supported hardware list, sorted by Bus
- Manufacturer: Supported hardware list, sorted by Module Manufacturer
- Contact,: Supported hardware list, sorted by Maintainer's name
- or Link: Supported hardware list, sorted by Support Link name
  - Add New: Add your entry to the Hardware Support database
- APS Modules: Support modules from the APS
- Downloads: IOC Support Module Downloads
Extensions: Tools to monitor and control IOCs
- Config: Extensions build system configuration
- Clients: Standalone CA Client programs
- Servers: CA Server tools
- Interfaces: CA Interfaces to other tools and languages
- DCTs: Database Management Tools
- Other: Other Tools
- Unsupported: Unsupported (orphaned) software
- Downloads: Extension Downloads
Distributions: Code collections from base, modules, extensions & elsewhere
- synApps: Beamline support code packaged by BCDA
- LivEPICS: Linux Live CD that includes EPICS (INFN)
- MacOSX: CA Client Installer for Mac OS X Leopard (ORNL)
- Win32: Extensions programs built for Microsoft systems
- TIS-4000: Commercial SCADA software based on early version of EPICS
- Downloads: Distrbution Downloads
Download: Software downloads
- Base: EPICS Base
- Modules: IOC Support Modules
- Extensions: Host applications
- Distributions: Software collections
- Examples: Sample & demo IOC Applications
- Browse CVS: CVSWeb access to the EPICS repository
Eclipse: Eclipse and CSS Plugins and Applications
IRMIS: Using RDBs to model installed EPICS IOCs
- Primer: IRMIS Primer document (PDF)
- 2005 Mtg: March 2005 Collaboration Meeting
Tech-Talk: The mailing list, our main online support channel
- Mailman: Subscribing to the list
- Search: Search the tech-talk archives
  - 2000: Messages from 2000
  - 2001: Messages from 2001
  - 2002: Messages from 2002
  - 2003: Messages from 2003
  - 2004: Messages from 2004
  - 2005: Messages from 2005
  - 2006: Messages from 2006
  - 2007: Messages from 2007
  - 2008: Messages from 2008
  - 2009: Messages from 2009
- Core-talk: Discussions between Base developers
  - Mailman: Subscribing to the list
  - Search: Search the core-talk archives
Bugs: Our Mantis Bug Reporting database
- Browse: Anonymous login to Mantis
Documents: Words not related to a specific release or package
- CA: Channel Access
- Training: Training materials
  - APS: APS Getting Started with EPICS lecture series
  - PSI: PSI's EPICS Training Materials
  - SNS: SNS Training from October 2006
  - 2007: Materials from the 2007 USPAS course in Houston, TX
  - 2003: Materials from the 2003 USPAS course in Baton Rouge, LA
  - 1999: Materials from the 1999 USPAS course at ANL
- General: General descriptions and overviews
- Logo: Graphics and use of the EPICS logo
- Hardware: Hardware support (old documents)
- Wiki: The EPICS Wiki, for community documentation
Links: Related web-sites
- EPICS Users: The main EPICS sites and companies
- Projects: A (fairly old) list of projects that were built with EPICS
Google: Find stuff on the EPICS site using Google
Licensing: EPICS Software Licensing
- Open Source: EPICS Open License text
  - Grant: EPICS Grant of License text
- Old Licenses: Original EPICS copyright notice
  - Old Base: Old EPICS Base License text
  - Verify: Licensee verification no longer necessary
  - Licensees: Public list of Base licensees
  - by Country: List sorted by country

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