EPICS Base

EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) is a set of software tools and applications which provide a software infrastructure for use in building distributed control systems to operate devices such as Particle Accelerators, Large Experiments and major Telescopes. EPICS Base is the central core of the control system toolkit. More details can be found at the About page of the official website

Links

• Official Website
• Original Website
• Repository

Documentation

• Documentation
• Documentation Repository

Community Communication

• Tech-Talk Mailing List
• Matrix Rooms
• News

Quick Install

Download a release from the Downloads page and unpack it. Inside the unpacked folder run:

make

For more information on how to install on your system see the Installation page of the documentation.

Quick run a softIOC

After building, you can run an example soft-IOC (Input/Output Controller) which runs a Channel Access server.

./bin/*/softIoc -x first

Run the dbl command to list the records it provides:

epics> dbl
first:BaseVersion
first:exit
epics> 

License

EPICS Base is distributed subject to a Software License Agreement found in the file LICENSE that is included with this distribution.