Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

USPAS 2003 EPICS Course

The following links are to the MS PowerPoint (.ppt) and Adobe PDF (.pdf) files used in the lectures at the 2003 US Particle Accelerator School course P571 EPICS Control Systems, held in Baton Rouge Louisianna. This course was based on EPICS R3.14.1 using linux IOCs.

Most of the original source files (some in OpenOffice.org Impress format) are also available as a single gnuzipped tar file (1.5 MB).

• 1. EPICS Overview
• 2. Channel Access Concepts
• 3. Database (part I)
• 4. Database (part II)
• 5. State Notation Language
• 6. IOC Application Development
• 7. The Alarm Handler ALH
• 8. Writing CA Clients
• 9. Configuring Channel Access
• 10. Device Support
• 11. Hardware Supported by EPICS
• 12. Issues in Accelerator Control
• 13. The Channel Archiver
• 14. Where to Interface
• 15. The Portable Channel Access Server
• 16. The CA Proxy Gateway
• 17. Structuring IOC Applications
• 18. Record Support

The course included afternoon practical lab sessions, using the instructions in the files below. Other labs are included in the lectures above, or were introduced informally.

• Lab 1: CA Clients
• Lab 2: Database
• Lab 5: Water Heater Exercise
• Lab 6: Heater Archiving