Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

EPICS Examples Downloads

This page contains pointers to some example EPICS IOC applications which are distributed by APS under the terms of the EPICS Open license.

• Demonstration Video
• Point Releases
• CVS Snapshots

Demonstration Video

Heinrich du Toit at iThemba Labs in South Africa has created a couple of videos demonstrating the Virtual Linac application which is available below. The MPEG-4 video files can be downloaded from SourceForge. Note that there is no sound included, but a text window explains what is about to happen; you'll need to pause the playback occasionally to read the text.

Point Releases

The following releases of example EPICS IOC applications are available for download.

Application Name	Version or Date	File Size	Click to Download
Virtual Linac ISO CDROM image (gzipped)	V0.7	80479 KB	vlinac0-7.iso.gz
Virtual Linac source code	2004-08-18	59 KB	vlinac_src.tgz
Virtual Linac demo for Sun Solaris on sparc	2004-08-18	2669 KB	vlinac_solaris-sparc.tgz
Virtual Linac demo for Linux on x86	2004-08-18	1318 KB	vlinac_linux-x86.tgz
Virtual Linac demo for MacOS-X	2004-08-18	2482 KB	vlinac_darwin-ppc.tgz
Virtual Linac demo for Microsoft Windows	2004-08-12	4569 KB	VirtualLinacSetup.exe
Mac OS X version of EPICS course files.	2006-02-13	24547 KB	EPICS_INSTALLER-2006-02-13.tar.gz

Note that to run the Virtual Linac demo on Microsoft Windows, you also need the commercial Hummingbird Exceed X Window Server software, and to have installed the EPICS Win32 Extensions package.

CVS Snapshots

The above examples packages are maintained in the EPICS CVS repository at APS. In addition to the point releases above, you can also download the latest version of the source that has been committed to CVS. The following gzipped tar files are created shortly after midnight Chicago (Central US) time whenever any change has been committed to the CVS repository, thus they should never be more than 24 hours behind the latest development version of the extension concerned. If a creation date is several days or even weeks old, that means that nothing has been checked into that CVS branch between that date and midnight in Chicago last night.

There is no guarantee that any particular CVS snapshot will even compile, let alone run properly. Do not rely on these extension versions, although in many cases they should work properly and may contain the latest bug fixes that will be found in the next official release.

Application Name	Creation Date	File Size	Click to Download
Virtual Linac	Sat, 29th Mar 2008	60 KB	vlinac_cvs.tar.gz