Beamline Controls and Data Aquisition Group

Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition EPICS Page

Welcome to the Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition (BCDA) group EPICS support pages.

BCDA's core mission is to develop software and electronic hardware for synchrotron radiation beamlines that serves the common needs of APS researchers, and to implement that software for the APS Beamlines. The group also participates in the wider EPICS collaboration around the world.

EPICS "Getting Started" lecture series

Here are details of the Getting started with EPICS lecture series

Site map

• About: About BCDA
• synApps: A package of EPICS based software written for synchrotron beamlines.
• SPEC: X-Ray Diffraction and Data Acquisition software from CSS
• Data Visualization: Visualize your data
• Data Acquisition: Data Acquisition software
• Hardware: BCDA recommended hardware
• Software: BCDA supported software
• EPICS Naming Convention: APS site wide EPICS naming conventions

Thank you to Andrew Johnson, from whom much of the PHP code for these pages has been taken.