EPICS EPICS (Experimental Physics Industrial Control System) is a set of software tools and applications originally developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory for the purpose of building distributed control systems to operate devices such as Particle Accelerators, Large Experiments, Telescopes, etc. EPICS provides: Interfaces to instrumentation from data acquisition, supervisory control, and steady-state control through a table entry database. Operator interface to all control system parameters through interactive displays. Data logging through a table entry archiving file. Alarm management through a table entry alarm file. Sequential control through a state definition language with convenient database interface routines. Channel access routines for interfacing the control system data to data analysis, third party software packages, adaptive control algorithms and any other functions not provided in the control system. The basic components needed are the Operator Interface(OPI), Input Output Controller(IOC), and a Local Area Network(LAN) which allows the OPI and IOC to communicate.

Current Version:   3.13.2 License Type:   http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/aboutLegal.php

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