Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

EPICS Distributions

The following is a list of EPICS distributions - analagous to a Linux distribution, these collections of EPICS software have been proven to work together. It is much quicker to download and install a distribution than it would be to obtain all of the individual pieces and install them separately. Some distributions contain binaries from EPICS Base and/or various extensions, others comprise source code only.

• synApps is a collection of record types, device support, sequence programs and operator displays developed by the BCDA group at APS for X-ray beamline control systems and distributed as source code.
• The ITER CODAC Core System is the development and interface kit for plant instrumentation and control systems at the international ITER project.
• LivEPICS is a Linux Live CD distribution that comes with EPICS Base, various EPICS Extensions, and documentation.
• The NSLS-II Package Repository for Debian contains a number of tools built and packaged for use with Debian Linux.
• Oak Ridge have created a CA Client installer for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.x) on Intel 32/64 bit, which contains the Base client libraries along with EDM, a framework for Objective-C, JCA/JNI, their WebCA plugin and the CAML software.
• Windows Tools is a collection of EPICS programs, compiled and packaged with an installer for systems running Microsoft Windows (NT, 2000 or XP, Vista, 7) with the Hummingbird Exceed X-server.
• A VMWare/VirtualBox disk image of 32-bit Scientific Linux 5.8 containing EPICS and a number of extensions and modules is available from Creighton University. It contains Base 3.14.12.2, Sequencer 2.1.10, Asyn 4-20, MEDM 3.1.7, Probe 1.1.7.0, VDCT 2.6.1274 and StripTool 2.5.15.0. Email Jiro Fujita to obtain the account name and password in order to use this image.
• Hathaway TIS-4000 is a commercial SCADA package that was based on an early version of EPICS. Under the original license agreement with Tate/Hathaway, all enhancements to EPICS were to be provided back to the EPICS community. Three different releases of TIS-4000 are now available; the source for the latest of these can be browsed online.
• Gabriele Carcassi has set up a Maven 2 repository on SourceForge for those using Maven to build Java applications. It is intended to contain libraries that are of general use to the EPICS community, such as JCA, CAJ, PVData, PVAccess, PVManager, ChannelFinder client API and so on. To use this repository in maven, add the following to your pom:

  <repositories>
      <repository>
          <id>epics</id>
          <name>EPICS Repository</name>
          <url>http://epics.sourceforge.net/maven2/</url>
      </repository>
  </repositories>