NOTE: External modules written for Base 3.14.12.x may require some changes to build correctly against Base 3.15.x.
Documentation
The documents listed below cover EPICS Base version 3.15.8, which is a patch release. Additional documentation can also be found in the documentation and html subdirectories of the software after building.
These documents may be revised at any time without generation of a new source release. The Known Problems page will be updated if any serious bugs are discovered after the release date, up until the next version of the software is released.
Other Links
Record Reference Documentation — Updated!
EPICS Application Developer’s Guide (3.15.6) (PDF)
by Marty Kraimer et al.
EPICS R3.15 Channel Access Reference Manual
by Jeffrey O. Hill and Ralph Lange
EPICS Channel Access Protocol Specification (3.15.6)
by Klemen Žagar et al.
Perl 5 Interface to Channel Access
by Andrew Johnson
msi: Macro Substitution and Include Tool
by Marty Kraimer
Channel Filters
by Andrew Johnson and Ralph Lange
Software Download
All versions of EPICS Base are available to the public under an open source license. Development versions can be acquired from Launchpad. The sizes of the download files can be seen on the Base Download page. The compressed tar files linked below contain source code only (no binaries), the [signature] link points to a GPG signature of the tarfile.
- base-3.15.8.tar.gz [signature] (15 May 2020)
Related Software
MCoreUtils – Utilities for EPICS on Multi-Core Linux A collection of utilities for running IOCs on multi-core (RT or not) Linux architectures.