General Documents
The following documents provide historical information and introductory material to EPICS, and are mostly retained for historical interest only. Much of the information here is now out of date, so these documents should not be relied upon for more than an indication of what was originally planned and implemented in earlier versions of EPICS. Textual links are to HTML documents, other formats are indicated by an icon link.
- EPICS Overview
- EPICS Architecture
by L.R. Dalesio (LANL), M.R. Kraimer (ANL), A.J. Kozubal (LANL) (11/91)
[300 KB] [89 KB] - EPICS: A Control System Software Co-Development Success Story
by M. Knott (ANL), D. Gurd (SSCL), S. Lewis (LBL), and M. Thuot (LANL) (9/93) - Links in a Distributed Database: Theory and Implementation
by Nicholas T. Karonis and Martin R. Kraimer (12/91)
[189 KB] [56 KB] - A Methodology For String Resolution
by Nicholas T. Karonis (11/92)
[72 KB] [20 KB] - The EPICS Architecture: Past, Present and Future
by Leo R. Dalesio et al. (1/98)
APS Control System
- APS Controls Overview
- Status of the APS and Its Accelerator Control System
by W. McDowell, M. Knott, M. Kraimer (9/93)
Other interesting historical documents
- EPICS Primer
by Paul Maley - APS Naming Conventions (1998)
- BABAR Naming Conventions
by Steve Lewis (1998) - IOC CORE REV 4
by Marty Kraimer (1997)