Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Bill,

On Thursday 14 August 2008 11:06:03 GW Lamb wrote:
> I am wondering if there is any documentation on the FDA's opinion of EPICS
> software.

I've not heard of anyone using EPICS in such an environment, although there 
are EPICS sites that provide medical treatment facilities.  However I don't 
believe that EPICS is ever used directly to control those facilities, the 
code is not rigorously audited to the standards of verification and 
validation that would be needed.

Here at the APS the general rule is that EPICS software plays no part in 
implementing personnel safety, and is rarely responsible for machine 
protection either, other than to report on the current status of other 
(hardware-based) protection systems.

HTH,

- Andrew
-- 
Talk is cheap. Show me the code. -- Linus Torvalds

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