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
- Launchpad: The epics-base project at Launchpad
  - Branches: Source code, old and new
  - Bugs: Reports and fixes
  - Blueprints: Development Plans
- R3.15: Development releases
  - R3.15.0: The latest development release (3.15.0.1 on 2012-07-31)
- R3.14: Recent stable releases
  - R3.14.12: The latest stable release (3.14.12.3 on 2012-12-17)
  - R3.14.11: The last stable release (2009-08-28)
  - R3.14.10: The previous stable release (2008-10-27)
  - R3.14.9: An older stable release (2007-02-05)
  - Old drvs: Device/driver support from R3.13, not 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
- vxWorks 6.x: Information about using vxWorks 6.x with EPICS
  - Tornado: Information about using vxWorks 5.x with EPICS
  - T2.2 Linux: Using Tornado 2.2 with a Linux host
  - PowerPC: Some differences between vxWorks on 68K and PowerPC
  - T20xConfig: Instructions on configuring vxWorks 5.x for use with EPICS
- RTEMS: Information about running EPICS using RTEMS
  - Tutorial: Getting started with EPICS on RTEMS
- MS Windows: Building EPICS on Microsoft Windows
- Autotest: Build & Test report from Diamond
- Download: EPICS Base Downloads
- Statistics: Development statistics from Ohloh.net
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
- Common Modules: Frequently used support modules
- 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
- ITER: ITER CODAC Core System (ITER)
- Creighton: Scientific Linux VMWare image with EPICS (Creighton)
- LivEPICS: Linux Live CD containing EPICS (INFN)
- NSLS-II: Debian Linux package repository (BNL)
- MacOSX: CA Client Installer for Mac OS X Leopard (ORNL)
- Maven2: Maven2 repository of Java libraries (SourceForge)
- Windows: Tools built for Microsoft Windows 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
EPICSv4: EPICS Version 4 Project
- Development: Help for Developing with EPICS v4
- FAQ: Fittingly Answered Questions about EPICS v4
- Working Group: Status, members, meetings etc.
  - Charter: Terms of reference for the WG
  - Action Items: Tasks assigned by the WG
  - Resolutions: WG Decisions
- Mail Archive: Discussion history
- Bugs: Problems in implemented v4 software
IRMIS: Using RDBs to model installed EPICS IOCs
- Primer: IRMIS Primer document (PDF)
- 2005 Mtg: March 2005 Collaboration Meeting
Talk: Information about our mailing lists
- Tech-Talk: The main mailing list, our online support channel
  - Mailman: Subscribing to the list
  - Search: Search the tech-talk archives
  - 2013: Browse tech-talk messages from 2013
- Core-talk: Discussions between Base developers
  - Mailman: Subscribing to the list
  - Search: Search the core-talk archives
  - 2013: Browse core-talk messages from 2013
- QTi-talk: Discussions about the QT Initiative
  - Mailman: Subscribing to the list
  - Search: Search the qti-talk archives
  - 2013: Browse QTi-talk messages from 2013
Bugs: The Launchpad bug tracker for epics-base
- Bug-tracker: Our old bug reporting database
- Browse: Anonymous login to Mantis
Documents: Text not related to a specific release or package
- Wiki: The EPICS Wiki, for community documentation
  - Record Types: Record Reference Manual for R3.14.x
  - How To ...: How To do various common EPICS tasks
  - Core dev's: Pages for core developers
- CA: Channel Access
- Training: Training materials
  - 2010: Materials from the 2010 USPAS course in Boston, MA
  - PSI: PSI's EPICS Training Materials
  - 2007: Materials from the 2007 USPAS course in Houston, TX
  - APS: APS Getting Started with EPICS lecture series, 2004
- General: General descriptions and overviews
- Logo: Graphics and use of the EPICS logo
- Hardware: Hardware support (old documents)
Links: Related web-sites
- EPICS Users: The main EPICS sites and companies
- Projects: A (fairly old) list of projects that were built with EPICS
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