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.

Check out the new EPICS-Controls website, which will be taking over as the primary home page for the EPICS Collaboration. This site will continue to exist (and will provide the mailing list archives for the forseeable future) but it may transition to hosting more specialized and Argonne-specific materials.

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• Home: EPICS Home at Argonne
  • EPICS-Controls: New EPICS Community Home Page
• News: Recent news
  • Meetings: Collaboration meeting details
    • 2023-04: 23-28 April, mainly hybrid, at Fermilab
  • 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
  • Launchpad: The epics-base project at Launchpad
    • Branches: Source code, old and new
    • Bugs: Reports and fixes
    • Blueprints: Development Plans
  • EPICS 7.0: Current releases
    • EPICS 7.0.7: Latest release (7.0.7 on 2022-09-07)
    • EPICS 7.0.6.x: Previous releases (7.0.6.1 on 2021-10-06)
    • EPICS 7.0.5: Older release (7.0.5 on 2021-02-28)
    • GitHub Actions: Build jobs for 7.0 branch
    • APS Jenkins: Build jobs for 7.0 on Unix
  • R3.16: Closed series
    • R3.16.2: Last release (3.16.2 on 2018-12-12)
  • R3.15: Stable releases
    • R3.15.9: Latest stable release (3.15.9 on 2020-05-15)
    • R3.15.8: Previous stable release (3.15.8 on 2020-05-15)
    • R3.15.7: Older stable release (3.15.7 on 2019-10-31)
    • GitHub Actions: Build jobs for 3.15 branch
    • APS Jenkins: Build jobs 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
    • Tutorial: Getting started with EPICS on RTEMS
  • 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
    • 2023: Browse tech-talk messages from 2023
  • Core-talk: Discussions between Base developers
    • Mailman: Subscribing to the list
    • Search: Search the core-talk archives
    • 2023: Browse core-talk messages from 2023
  • 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