Controls Software Documentation

This page exists to collect links to documentation about the instrument control system EPICS, its modules and related libraries (synApps, areaDetector), as used at the Advanced Photon Source.

Documentation referenced should be appropriate for beamline scientists, as opposed to only EPICS developers. New deployments should prefer EPICSv7, the latest release series.

See also the extensive resources from past EPICS Collaboration meetings.

EPICS Base

• Intro to EPICS
• EPICS Database Concepts
• EPICS Base Getting Started (official)

synApps (aka EPICS Support)

• synApps Collected Documentation
• synApps deployment instructions, including use of xxx template ioc

areaDetector

• areaDetector Official Documentation

Deploying and maintaining IOCs

• simDetector Install directions (2BM)
• The Basics of an IOC (APS Internal)
• Creation of an IOC using mkioc

Maintaining Documentation

• ReadTheDocs tutorial and example site