Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

USPAS 2014 EPICS Course

Lectures

The following lectures and demonstrations are being given at the 2014 US Particle Accelerator School course on EPICS Control Systems, held in Albuquerque, NM. Links are to PDF = Adobe Portable Document Format, ODP = Open Document Presentation, PPT = Microsoft PowerPoint or DOC = Microsoft Word document files. This course is based on EPICS Base 3.14.12.4.

Monday

1. Introduction to EPICS (WEN) PDF ODP
2. Channel Access and Client Tools (ANJ) PDF ODP
3. Control System Studio (KUK)
   Overview PDF PPT
   First Steps PDF PPT
   BOY PDF PPT
   BOY Details PDF PPT
   BOY Exercises PDF DOC

Tuesday

4. IOC Databases (ANJ)
   Principles PDF ODP
   Practice PDF ODP
   Creation PDF ODP
   VDCT and DB Exercises PDF ODT
5. IOC Development (WEN) PDF ODP
6. State Notation Language & Sequencer (KUK)
   EPICS Automation PDF PPT
   Sequencer PDF PPT
   Exercises PDF DOC

Wednesday

7. Introducing Device Support (WEN) PDF ODP
8. Existing Support Modules (ANJ) PDF ODP
9. Using AsynDriver and StreamDevice (WEN) PDF ODP

Thursday

10. Channel Access (ANJ)
    Protocol PDF ODP
    Client Programming PDF ODP
11. Building Base & Support Modules Demo (WEN/ANJ)

Friday

12. Examination

Labs

The lab exercises for the course are available above,and comprised:

1. Monday: Control System Studio (KUK)
2. Tuesday: VDCT and Database Creation (ANJ)
3. Tuesday: MakeBaseApp and SNL Programming (KUK)
4. Wednesday: Developing a Device Support (WEN)
5. Wednesday – Friday: Project (WEN)

Grading

Student grades will depend 50% on their project (WEN), and 50% on their final examination results (ANJ). Both will occur on Friday morning.