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 * EPICS [[http://debian-xray.iit.edu|unofficial package]] [[http://http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/|upstream]] is a set of Open Source software tools, libraries and applications developed collaboratively and used worldwide to create distributed soft real-time control systems for scientific instruments such as a particle accelerators, telescopes and other large scientific experiments.  * EPICS [[http://debian-xray.iit.edu|unofficial package]] [[http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/|upstream]] is a set of Open Source software tools, libraries and applications developed collaboratively and used worldwide to create distributed soft real-time control systems for scientific instruments such as a particle accelerators, telescopes and other large scientific experiments.

Data Acquisition using Debian

Debian packages useful for data acquisition are in the data acquisition task

This page aims not to duplicate this package list, but to provide a useful overview - and links to case studies.

Data Acquisition

Data Acquisition and Control

  • TANGO upstream is an object oriented distributed control system using CORBA and is being actively developed as a collaborative effort between the Alba, Desy, Elettra, ESRF and Soleil institutes.

  • EPICS unofficial package upstream is a set of Open Source software tools, libraries and applications developed collaboratively and used worldwide to create distributed soft real-time control systems for scientific instruments such as a particle accelerators, telescopes and other large scientific experiments.

  • MX unofficial package upstream is a data acquisition and control system that is designed to serve as a portable toolkit for writing data acquisition and control programs; a standalone system capable of controlling entire experiments; a platform for building device control servers to be used by other applications; a way of extending other control systems and of glueing disparate control systems together. Unofficial Debian packages (including EPICS support) are at http://debian-xray.iit.edu.