The ASD Controls and AOD BCDA groups at Argonne National Laboratory coordinated a series of lectures entitled "Getting Started with EPICS" in 2004-2005. The lectures were grouped in sessions targeted towards those interested in using EPICS tools, those interested in developing EPICS-enabled programs, and those interested in working with EPICS Input/Output Controller (IOC) software.
All of the lectures were recorded and have been made available as an integrated video and slide presentation using SofTV (this is the best way to view them if you can use it). In case your browser does not meet the SofTV viewer requirements, Real Video and PDF slides of the presentation are also provided [Linux users will need RealPlayer - HelixPlayer doesn't work].
Click on the lecture title for a summary of content, copies of the session handout, and PowerPoint slides.
| Date | Lecture | Length | View |
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| Introduction | |||
| Aug. 16, 2004 | Introductory Session I Ned Arnold, Advanced Photon Source |
54:11 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Aug. 16, 2004 | Introductory Session II John Maclean, Advanced Photon Source |
52:44 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Using Client Tools | |||
| Aug. 23, 2004 | Overview of Client Tools Ken Evans, Advanced Photon Source |
27:07 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Aug. 23, 2004 | Virtual Linac Demo and VLINAC CDRom Ken Evans, Advanced Photon Source |
8:15 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Aug. 23, 2004 | MEDM Ken Evans, Advanced Photon Source |
49:18 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Aug. 24, 2004 | OAG Tools for General Users Michael Borland, Advanced Photon Source |
1:03:20 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Sept. 7, 2004 | Introduction to Alarm Handlers Randy Flood and Karen Schroeder, Argonne National Laboratory |
24:09 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Sept. 7, 2004 | EPICS Channel Archiver Timothy Graber, University of Chicago |
37:53 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Developing Client Tools | |||
| Sept. 16, 2004 | Introduction to Channel Access Clients (Part I) Ken Evans, Advanced Photon Source |
55:32 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Sept. 16, 2004 | Introduction to Channel Access Clients (Part II) Ken Evans, Advanced Photon Source |
40:54 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Sept. 21, 2004 | Tcl/Tk and the OAG Tcl/Tk Environment Robert Soliday, Advanced Photon Source |
47:13 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Sept. 23, 2004 | Using IDL and Python with EPICS Mark Rivers, University of Chicago |
55:45 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Sept. 23, 2004 | Python Applications for Beamline Control Mark Rivers, University of Chicago |
19:32 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Oct. 1, 2004 | EPICS and the SDDS Toolkit Michael Borland, Advanced Photon Source |
1:11:51 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Oct. 8, 2004 | Channel Access Servers Ken Evans, Advanced Photon Source |
50:57 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Oct. 12, 2004 | Programming EPICS with PERL Mohan Ramanathan, Advanced Photon Source |
54:05 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Oct. 12, 2004 | Java and JCA Ken Evans, Advanced Photon Source |
44:46 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Developing IOCs | |||
| Oct. 21, 2004 | Input/Output Controller (IOC) Overview Eric Norum, Advanced Photon Source |
58:27 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Oct. 26, 2004 | What is an EPICS Database? (Part I) Andrew Johnson, Advanced Photon Source |
1:09:54 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Oct. 26, 2004 | What is an EPICS Database? (Part II) Andrew Johnson, Advanced Photon Source |
27:16 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Oct. 28, 2004 | Record Types and Examples Tim Mooney, Advanced Photon Source Listing of Record Types |
50:59 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Nov. 2, 2004 | Database Design with VDCT Nicholas Di Monte, Advanced Photon Source |
1:18:06 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Nov. 9, 2004 | State Notation Language and the Sequencer John Maclean, Advanced Photon Source |
35:25 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Nov. 11, 2004 | Finding, Deploying and Managing EPICS I/O Support Andrew Johnson, Advanced Photon Source |
31:41 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Nov. 16, 2004 | Writing Device Support Eric Norum, Advanced Photon Source |
50:18 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Nov. 18, 2004 | asyn: An Interface Between EPICS Drivers and Device Support Mark Rivers, University of Chicago |
1:01:14 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Nov. 23, 2004 | Writing Record Support Marty Kraimer, Advanced Photon Source |
1:11:32 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Special Topics | |||
| Jan. 11, 2005 | Introduction to synApps (v6.1) Tim Mooney, Argonne National Laboratory |
56:44 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Feb. 1, 2005 | Detectors and Feedback Mark Rivers, University of Chicago |
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| Feb. 15, 2005 | Data Visualization Ben-chin Cha, Argonne National Laboratory |
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| Feb. 22, 2005 | Remote Access Ken Evans, Argonne National Laboratory |
45:42 | SofTV RealVideo |
| Mar. 1, 2005 | Motors Ron Sluiter, Argonne National Laboratory |
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| Mar. 8, 2005 | Channel Access in Depth Ken Evans, Argonne National Laboratory |
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| Mar. 15, 2005 | Scans Tim Mooney, Argonne National Laboratory |
56:15 | SofTV RealVideo |
The video index page for this series is here.