Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

EPICS Home at Argonne

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.

The EPICS-Controls website is a community-run site which is slowly taking over as the primary home page for the EPICS Collaboration. This site will continue to exist at APS (and will provide the mailing list archives for the forseeable future) but it may transition to hosting more specialized and Argonne-specific materials.

The best place to start looking for documentation about EPICS is now the EPICS Documentation website, although for some specific information it will point to external web-servers provided by the projects that maintain the software.

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• Home: EPICS Home at Argonne
  • EPICS Controls site: EPICS Community Home Page
  • EPICS Documentation site: EPICS Documentation website
• News: Recent news
  • Meetings: Collaboration meeting details
    • 2024-09: 16-20 September 2024 at SNS in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  • Codeathons: EPICS developer hackathons
• About: What is EPICS anyway?
  • Council: The EPICS Council - project governance
  • Contacts: Who's who, and how to contact them
  • 10 Things ...: Ten Really Neat Things About EPICS
• Base: The core EPICS software for both IOCs and Host tools
  • GitHub: EPICS Base projects on GitHub
    • EPICS Base: Base C/C++ sources back to 3.13
    • Base Issues: Open and fixed bug reports
    • Base Pull Requests: Work in progress
    • Launchpad Bugs: Reports and fixes for older bugs
  • EPICS 7.0: Active release series
    • EPICS 7.0.8: Newest releases (7.0.8.1 on 2024-06-27)
    • EPICS 7.0.7: Previous release (7.0.7 on 2022-09-07)
    • EPICS 7.0.6.x: Older releases (7.0.6.1 on 2021-10-06)
    • GitHub Actions: Build jobs on GitHub for 7.0 branch
  • R3.16: Closed series
  • R3.15: Older stable releases
    • R3.15.9: Latest stable release (3.15.9 on 2020-05-15)
    • GitHub Actions: Build jobs on GitHub for 3.15 branch
  • R3.14: Closed, please upgrade!
  • R3.13: Frozen; VxWorks IOCs only
  • R3.12: Historic versions
  • R3.11: Fossilized, no VCS 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 4.x
    • Tutorial: Getting started with EPICS on RTEMS 4.x
  • MS Windows: Building EPICS on Microsoft Windows
  • 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 I/O (now on epics-controls website)
  • 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: New entries are now managed through the epics-controls website
  • 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 Client programs
  • Servers: Server tools
  • Interfaces: Interfaces to other tools and languages
  • DCTs: IOC 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
  • Debian: NSLS-II Controls Package Repository (BNL)
  • ITER: ITER CODAC Core System (ITER)
  • Creighton: Scientific Linux VMWare image with EPICS (Creighton)
  • 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: ViewVC access to the EPICS repository
• Search: Find stuff on this site using Google
• EPICS V4: EPICS Version 4 Project
  • Development: Help for Developing with EPICS v4
  • Downloads: Where to download the EPICS V4 software
  • Documentation: Software documentation
  • Working Group: Status, members, meetings etc.
    • Github: Source Code Repositories and issue tracking
    • Mail Archive: Discussion history
• 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
    • 2024: Browse tech-talk messages from 2024
  • Core-talk: Discussions between Base developers
    • Mailman: Subscribing to the list
    • Search: Search the core-talk archives
    • 2024: Browse core-talk messages from 2024
  • QTi-talk: Discussions about the QT Initiative (closed)
    • Search: Search the qti-talk archives
  • Hw-talk: Hardware collaboration mailing list (closed)
    • Search: Search the hw-talk archives
• 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
    • USPAS 2019: Materials from the 2019 USPAS course in Knoxville, TN
    • APS 2015: APS EPICS Training series, 2015 talks
    • APS 2014: APS EPICS Training series, 2014 talks
  • 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