Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

USPAS 1999 EPICS Course

The following links are to the MS PowerPoint (Office 97) files of a series of lectures used for the US Particle Accelerator School EPICS training course held at ANL in June 1999 and subsequently revised slightly for a later EPICS course also held at APS. This course was based on EPICS R3.13.x with vxWorks-based IOCs.

The complete set of files is also available as a single zip file (500 KB).

• Cover pages
• Course Agenda
• List of Reference Documents and URLs
• 1. EPICS Overview
• 2. Channel Access Concepts
• 3. Database (part I)
• 4. Database (part II)
• 5. Working with an IOC
• 6. State Notation Language
• 7. IOC Application Development
• 8. Flow of Control
• 9. Device Support
• 10. Record Support
• 11. Channel Access Clients
• 12. The Portable Channel Access Server
• 13. Channel Access Configuration
• 14. Hardware

The course included afternoon practical lab sessions, using the instructions in the files below. Again the complete set of these files is also available as a single zip file (75 KB). The IOC applications and MEDM screens provided for the students were developed by Ned Arnold and are available as a tar.gz archive file (2MB).

• Lab 0: Projects
• Lab 1: CA Clients
• Lab 2: Database
• Lab 3: State Notation Lanugage
• Lab 4: Device Support