Spring EPICS collaboration meeting 2026

Liste des Contributions

1. Welcome

Pierre Manil (CEA Paris-Saclay)

20/04/2026 09:30

EPICS Meeting Talks M1

45. EPICS legacy at CEA Saclay

Francoise Gougnaud (CEA Saclay Irfu)

20/04/2026 09:50

Status reports

Talk

EPICS Meeting Talks M1

This presentation will give an overview of the use of EPICS, its tools and hardware platforms in our laboratory for particle accelerator projects over the last 30 years. We joined the EPICS community in 1993 for the control system of the Tesla Test Facility at DESY, a collaborative project for which EPICS was being advised. Subsequently, our Institute was involved in 2 experiments at the...

70. TITAN accelerator status report

Yannick Mariette (CEA Paris-Saclay)

20/04/2026 10:10

Status reports

Talk

EPICS Meeting Talks M1

At the CEA site in Saclay, an accelerator named TITAN is under construction. It is an evolution of the IPHI accelerator, completely renovated for industrial use. Many systems are being developed in-house, including the information system for this project, which houses the control and command systems. This talk presents the project and the status report.

72. TBD - Visit Synergium

24/04/2026 14:00

38. A Python-Based Modular EPICS Collector for On-Demand PV Recording

Simeon Beinlich (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany)

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Lightning Talk

We present our efforts to develop a lightweight modular EPICS collector to record small- to medium-sized sets of PVs over a user-controlled period of time.

The goal is to provide an easy-to-extend Python package for recording PV data during experimental runs that covers basic requirements such as export-to-file, upload to data-management systems, and live-streaming of recorded data for...

20. A Versatile Framework for Automated Attitude Tuning at Light Source Facilities

Dr Pengcheng Li (IHEP)

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Lightning Talk

Attitude tuning—encompassing tasks such as beam focusing and sample alignment—is a critical yet time-consuming preparation step in synchrotron radiation experiments. This paper presents a Mamba-based software framework designed to automate and streamline attitude tuning at light source facilities such as HEPS and BSRF. The framework treats attitude tuning as a numerical optimization problem,...

58. Analysis and administration of an EPICS meeting using Python and maybe LLM

Alexis Gaget (CEA Paris-Saclay, IRFU)

Others

Lightning Talk

To manage this EPICS meeting, we had to switch between the Indico site and the Yurplan payment platform. To make administration easier, we wrote a Python script to check that participants had paid on the other platform.
At the same time, to get some basic statistics about the participants and their abstracts, we created a few additional scripts to analyze the conference.

48. AutOlog

Antoine Choquet (CEA Paris-Saclay)

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Lightning Talk

Autolog is a Python package which allows automatic creation of logs in a Phoebus-Olog server, triggered by EPICS Process Variables (PV). This application will be integrated as a daemon and will continuously monitor the Channel Access network using a loop with a user-defined delay.

The user defines in a configuration file (toml format):
- connection information to the Olog API,
-...

32. Automated testing and validation of critical MPS applications using Hardware-in-the-Loop before production deployment

Victor Nadot (CEA Paris-Saclay)

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Talk

At CEA/IRFU, we design and provide particle accelerators along with their control systems. A key part of these systems is the Machine Protection System (MPS). Specifically, the SBCT (system for beam current transmission monitoring) monitors the beam using ACCT sensors. To ensure machine protection, this system must be able to stop the beam in only a few µsec if an anomaly is detected.

The...

18. Caput Log integration with pvinfo

Conor Schofield (LBNL)

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Talk

Caputlog is a runtime logging tool that streams events through Logstash and stores them in Elasticsearch, while PVInfo provides a React-based visualization layer for PV metadata. This project integrates Caputlog logs with PVInfo to deliver context-rich diagnostics, improved traceability, and actionable analytics. We engineered a modular data pipeline that ingests caput events from Caputlog,...

65. Closing the Gap: Modern Software Practices in the EPICS Community

Anders Lindh Olsson (ESS)

Others

Talk

The EPICS ecosystem continues to grow in capability, but several software engineering practices that have become standard in the broader open-source world remain unevenly adopted across the EPICS community. This talk is about closing that gap - and making the ecosystem a better place to build and contribute together.

5. CSNS accelerator beam synchronous data acquisition system

Yuliang Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics)

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Talk

The CSNS accelerator beam-synchronous data acquisition (BSA) system is designed to ensure immediate data availability and capable of providing a comprehensive view of the entire machine through high sampling rates and precise timestamping data. The BSA data can be used for machine tuning, troubleshooting, and early fault prediction. EPICS 7 structured PVs are employed to integrate raw waveform...

61. Daedalus: A WebUI for EPICS

Oliver Copping (Diamond Light Source)

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Talk

For decades, Diamond Light Source (DLS) and other facilities have been reliant on GUI packages that were first developed in the 90s and 2000s (e.g. edm, medm). CS-Studio was an attempt to move away from this, but wasn't very popular at DLS because of its sluggish performance and dependencies on Eclipse RCP and SWT.
At DLS for our Diamond II upgrade, we are looking to modernise our whole...

4. Design and implementation of CSNS-II accelerator control network management system

kangjia xue (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Cybersecurity

Lightning Talk

As accelerators increase in scale and complexity, their control networks face challenges such as device proliferation, security management difficulties, and low maintenance efficiency. To address these issues, a control network management system for large-scale accelerators was designed and developed. This system implements three core functionalities: centralized management of control network...

6. Design and Implementation of the Vacuum Control System for CSNS Spectrometers

M. Xuan Wu (China Spallation Neutron Source, IHEP)

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Lightning Talk

Considering the characteristics of the spectrometer vacuum system at the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), such as its complexity, a large number and variety of controlled equipment, and intricate vacuum pumping processes, a vacuum control system for CSNS spectrometers has been designed. The system adopts a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) to realize remote control of various vacuum...

37. Development and Application of a High-Resolution, High-Stability Control System for Synchrotron Radiation Facilities

Xuying Lan

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Lightning Talk

To meet the nanoradian-level beam stability requirements of synchrotron radiation facilities and address the limitations of fixed algorithms and low precision in conventional controllers, the Beamline Control Group of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility has developed a high-performance optical component control system based on the integration of high-performance hardware and flexible...

14. Development of virtual beamline technology for advanced light sources: simulation and application of key components

Mlle Miao Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics)

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Talk

This study develops a virtual beamline technology for advanced light sources, with a focus on simulating the fundamental operational functions of critical devices including motors, double-crystal monochromators (DCM), fluorescent screens (FS), X-ray detectors, and X-ray beam position monitors (XBPM). By establishing parametric models, the simulation of device actions is achieved. It supports...

63. Dynamically-generated PVs and HMIs

Ivan Finch (STFC / ISIS)

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Talk

One of the capabilities of CS-Studio / Phoebus is to load HMIs from a web-server. It is shown how this capability can be used to dynamically-generate HMIs and embedded display elements. This may be used to customize HMIs for users.

By reacting to search broadcasts, PVs may also be dynamically-generated on a per user (or other) basis. The methods that can be used to achieve this are...

26. e3: Conda-Powered EPICS Environments at ESS

Anders Lindh Olsson (ESS)

System Management

Talk

We present the latest evolution of e3, ESS' EPICS environment, centered on the introduction of conda as its package and environment manager. e3 combines three core concepts: require for runtime dynamic module loading into a generic IOC executable (eliminating per-IOC compilation and enabling module upgrades without rebuilding IOCs), wrappers - now in the form of conda recipes - as auditable,...

42. Embedded Linux EPICS IOC on a Xilinx UltraScale+×ZCU102 for a Microresearch Finland open Event Receiver

Sarah Dolan

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Lightning Talk

The demand for deterministic, low-latency timing control at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) has driven the integration of Event Receivers (EVR) with embedded Linux environments. We present an open-source Field Programmable Gate Array System on Chip (FPGA SoC) platform built with Yocto for the Xilinx ZCU102 UltraScale+ MPSoC. The MPSoC hosts an embedded Linux kernel and the EPICS...

36. Enhancing EPICS Service Resilience with VRRP and Round-Robin DNS

Paul Ray (UKRI - STFC)

System Management

Lightning Talk

Ensuring high availability of EPICS network services is increasingly important as control systems scale. By combining VRRP to provide IP‑layer mobility with Round‑Robin DNS for lightweight distribution, it is possible to build resilient configurations that tolerate client-side and server-side failures.
These techniques are commonly used for services such as load balancing provided by HAProxy...

3. EPICS (RTEMS/Linux) IOC with Web-Server for configuration

Heinz Junkes (Fritz Haber Institut)

System Management

Lightning Talk

I have often been asked by our IOC users whether it would be possible to configure and maintain the IOC via a web interface.
Just like they are used to doing with their internet routers (in Germany, fritz!box). This topic was raised at the last Codeathon/Documentathon at Diamond. I will briefly present what has been done so far and give an outlook on further steps.

15. EPICS Archiver Appliance version 1 to the future.

Sky Brewer (ESS)

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Talk

An overview of changes to the EPICS Archiver Appliance since version 1.1.0. Highlights on less well known features of the Archiver Appliance. Outline on how to use the more recent changes.

34. EPICS AreaDetector Gaussian Fitting Plugin for Robust Beam Characterization and Alignment Support

Luca Porzio (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Lightning Talk

We present a new AreaDetector plugin that performs fast, robust 2D beam characterization using nonlinear least squares fitting, designed for beam diagnostics and focusing. The plugin fits flexible beam models (elliptical and rotated Gaussian, with optional Voigt-like extensions) directly on camera images and exposes key beam parameters such as centroid, widths, rotation, amplitude, and...

33. EPICS Diode – Gearing Up for Production Use

Denis Stepanov (ITER Organization)

Cybersecurity

Talk

To support ITER’s remote participation plans while honoring cybersecurity requirements, we are developing the "EPICS Diode", mirroring EPICS PVs through hardware devices allowing strictly one-directional network traffic.
We present the results of performance and qualification testing done in 2025, including a hardware network diode in the loop. The software has been made publicly available on GitHub.

64. EPICS Module for Gating EPICS Alarms (and more)

Edmund Blomley (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Talk

As a continuation to our discussion on gating EPICS alarms from the last collaboration meeting, we now have developed an experimental EPICS module, which allows to extend the EPICS record definition to achieve such a behaviour without relying on additional middle layer services. This presentation will show how it currently works and discuss different use-cases which go beyond just the alarm...

67. EPICS Summer School 2026

Timo Korhonen (European Spallation Source ERIC)

Others

Lightning Talk

A "sales pitch" for the European EPICS Summer School 2026.
Short introduction to the program and the key topics in the school.

8. EPICS-Integrated High Level Application Development at HEPS

Xiaohan Lu

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Talk

To support beam commissioning and operation at the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), China’s first fourth-generation high-energy synchrotron light source, an EPICS-integrated high level application (HLA) framework has been developed. The framework, named Pyapas, is implemented in Python and serves as the unified platform for HLA development at HEPS.
Pyapas is tightly integrated with EPICS,...

30. epics-rs: Exploring a Rust Implementation of EPICS for Simulation and Prototyping

Sang Woo Kim (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory)

EPICS Core

Talk

The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) has served for more than three decades as a foundational framework for distributed control systems at accelerator facilities, synchrotron light sources, and large-scale scientific instruments. Its mature ecosystem and extensive set of support modules, developed through long-term community collaboration, have enabled reliable...

54. EPNix in practice

Stephane Tzvetkov (CEA)

System Management

Talk

[EPNix][1] is an EPICS environment allowing you to build, package and deploy IOCs as well as other EPICS-related software by using the [Nix][2] package manager.

EPNix is developed, maintained, and used in production by the [CEA][3]. Since the project is open-source, any other organization can use it as well.

This talk is more like a demonstration showing how to use EPNix and explaining...

66. Exploring PVAccess with Rust

Aqeel AlShafei

EPICS Core

Lightning Talk

Implementing the PVAccess protocol codec in Rust and introducing observability tools alongside standard PVAccess utilities as a working prototype. The Rust-based implementation leverages the language's ownership model and borrow checker to provide compile-time guarantees of memory and thread safety. A PVAccess capture tool called spvirit-scry is demonstrated, featuring a terminal user...

19. Fermilab’s journey to a cloud-native EPICS deployment

Maria Acosta Flechas (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

System Management

Talk

The Fermilab control system has been running the Accelerator Complex for more than 4 decades now. PIP-II and LBNF-Dune will require cutting-edge compute, data storage and modern applications and services to deliver the world’s most intense high-energy neutrino beam.
ACORN project aims to modernize the control system in many aspects, including hardware, infrastructure and software...

62. FRIB Alarm Configuration Interface application for the streamlining and improvement of alarm configuration management

Cyril Roy

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Talk

Network access at the FRIB is highly restricted and secured, limiting production access to designated Controls workstations. Alarm configuration for Phoebus starts out as XML in a Git repository, which serves as the official system of record, and is automatically deployed in production with Puppet. Changes made directly through the Phoebus interface may bypass the official system of record....

24. From Legacy to Modern: Next-Generation LANSCE controls Architecture with Epics 7, Python, High-Speed Digitization, and Modern Timing System

Dr Tyagi Ramakrishnan (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Status reports

Talk

Over the past five years the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) has eliminated legacy VAX systems and largely retired CAMAC and VME form factors, consolidating its control infrastructure under EPICS 3.15. Front end I/O has been migrated to National Instruments CompactRIO (cRIO) platforms using the IIO framework and lvPortDriver, while high speed digitization is now performed on NI PXIe...

22. Future State of SNCSEQ

Ralph Lange (ITER Organization)

EPICS Core

Lightning Talk

The EPICS SNCSEQ module (aka "SNL Sequencer") is getting close to its end of life: Finite state machines are limited and don't scale to the size of modern EPICS installations. Also, SNCSEQ does not understand the PVAccess network protocol.
But: It is performant, robust and stable. Almost every site is using it.

A possible future of SNCSEQ would restrict it to running local state machines...

29. Generic Python Algorithm Plugin for Area Detector

Jure Varlec (Cosylab)

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Talk

Adding novel processing stages to Area Detector normally requires developing a C++ plugin. This slows prototyping and limits access to modern analysis tools that are predominantly available in Python. We present a new Area Detector plugin that executes user-defined Python algorithms directly on acquired images and their metadata. The plugin provides access to advanced scientific libraries and...

57. GengiScan

Stephane Tzvetkov (CEA Paris Saclay)

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Lightning Talk

GengiScan (GENius GenerIc SCAN) is a program meant to run "scanning procedures" (or "scan"), i.e. series of operations that involves moving "positioners" (like, motors, magnets, etc) through a specific sequence of positions combinations.

The end goal is to acquire data automatically over the entire procedures, which would have been extremely painful (if not downright impossible) to do...

49. High-level applications based on EPICS and Python

Antoine Choquet (CEA Paris-Saclay)

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Talk

In the context of the SARAF project, CEA/IRFU has been developing high-level applications to automate the configuration of the accelerator and calibrate its various equipment.

Namely, these applications are:
- Time of Flight (Tof): for measuring the beam energy anywhere in the accelerator,
- CavityPhasing: for calibrating the cavities,
- BpmCalib: for calibrating the BPM position...

41. IFMIF-DONES control systems and testing platform

Lucas Maindive (IFMIF-DONES España)

System Management

Lightning Talk

IFMIF-DONES is a materials research facility on the European roadmap toward the commercialization of fusion energy, to be constructed near Granada in Spain. It will generate an intense, continuous flux of fusion-like neutrons to qualify materials for future fusion reactors. Its ambitious availability targets impose stringent reliability requirements on all components, particularly transversal...

25. Implementing Closed-Loop EPICS EPID Control on CompactRIO for the IPF Water Skid at LANSCE

H. R. Martin (LANL)

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Lightning Talk

Abstract.
As part of the Isotope Production Facility (IPF) water skid plant controls upgrade at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), we are migrating from an Allen-Bradley ControlLogix (Logix 5000) PLC (RSLogix 5000/Studio 5000) to NI (Emerson) CompactRIO (cRIO-9048)–based Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) input/output controllers (IOCs) using our...

60. Integration of non digital devices using modbus

Falk Rosenhahn (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society)

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Lightning Talk

Retrofitting analog hardware with digital interfaces is a efficient and budget-friendly way to modernize setup in an laboratory environment. For instance, manual linear axes can be seamlessly upgraded using a intergrated stepper motor or simple pumps can gain digital control via inexpensive DAC converters. These electronics bridge the gap between legacy mechanics and EPICS control without...

47. IOC Shell Parser

Alain Sandoz

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Lightning Talk

Although the EPICS framework is used for many experimental physics facilities, monitoring the errors and warnings in IOC shell remains a challenge. Errors in the IOC shell are only kept track of in log files, which are rarely read by anyone. To address this issue, a project called IOC Shell Parser was developed, providing error detection and real-time EPICS monitoring. Designed to be used in...

31. kiwi-scan: A Modular Scan Framework for Commissioning and Diagnostics in EPICS Environments

Andreas Balzer (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB))

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Lightning Talk

kiwi-scan is a modular, YAML-configured Python framework for beamline and laboratory automation in EPICS environments. Developed at BESSY II, it has evolved from a tool for integration testing and operational diagnostics into a reusable system for commissioning and routine beamline operation.

Representative applications include integration testing, encoder error detection,...

46. LANSCE Accelerator Wire Scanner Upgrades

Heather Leffler (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Lightning Talk

LANSCE Accelerator Wire Scanner Upgrades
Author: Heather Leffler
Co-authors: Scott Baily, Lucas Montoya

The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) accelerator wire scanners currently utilize two different similar hardware and software architectures. This upgrade project is to upgrade the embedded controller in the older 33 units and install the modern version of the software. This...

35. Managing IOC deployments at scale at ESS

Simon Rose (European Spallation Source ERIC)

System Management

Talk

From humble beginnings of a hand-maintained list and a combination of ssh + screen to today, the European Spallation source currently has over 3,400 active IOCs which serve over 11,000,000 PVs. We will describe how we manage configuration for our systems emphasizing traceability, reproducibility, and quality control. We will also show how this allows us to monitor various aspects of our system...

39. Managing IOCs with IOCM

Steven Webb (ORNL/SNS)

System Management

Talk

Large EPICS installations often operate hundreds of soft IOCs distributed across multiple hosts. Managing these IOCs consistently—covering application creation, startup and shutdown, monitoring, validation, and upgrades—can become increasingly complex and error-prone as systems grow and standards evolve. To address these challenges at the Spallation Neutron Source, a new tool called IOCM has...

13. Modular optical laser control systems: an approach based on EPICS and system-on-module controllers

Tyler Johnson (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Talk

The LCLS-II optical laser delivery system supports many interaction points across many experiment hutches. A modular approach to laser conditioning and delivery has been developed in which various laser modules can be added or removed to a system in order to accommodate a wide range of experiments and requisite laser parameters. Previous iterations of this system have taken an off-board...

21. OPC UA Device Support – Update

Ralph Lange (ITER Organization), Dirk Zimoch (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Lightning Talk

A collaboration (ITER/HZB-BESSY/ESS/PSI) maintains and develops a Device Support module for integration using the OPC UA industrial SCADA protocol. Goals, status and roadmap will be presented.

11. Overview and status of beam diagnostics development for the CSNS Upgrade project

Renjun Yang (Institute of High Energy Physics)

Status reports

Talk

The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is a major facility for neutron science in China, and is currently operating at an averaged beam power of 170 kW with a beam energy of 1.6 GeV and repetation rate of 25 Hz. In 2024, the CSNS Upgrade project (CSNS-II) was launched and a number of new instrumentations will be equiped at the new superconducting linac, RCS and new beamlines. We will...

44. Planting the Oactree

Max Günther (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (IBPT))

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Lightning Talk

The Karlsruhe Research Accelerator at KIT has a global state machine in place to automate certain workflows previously done manually by the operators.
This state machine currently uses the state notation language (SNL). Next to the increasing complexity and the wish to add more features, operators also cannot adjust or improve any procedures themselves. We have therfore started exploring the...

27. Preparing EPICS Services for Operational Use at Fermilab

Mariana González Velarde (Fermilab)

System Management

Lightning Talk

As part of PIP-II, ensuring that EPICS services can operate reliably during commissioning and long-term operation requires more than functional correctness. Operational deployments require reproducible builds, well-defined configurations, observability, security practices, recovery procedures, performance and scalability considerations, clear operational ownership, and operator/user...

59. PVAccess for LabVIEW update

Ross Titmarsh (STFC)

EPICS Core

Lightning Talk

An update on the status of bringing PVAccess communications to the LabVIEW ecosystem.

10. PVTUI - Terminal User Interfaces for EPICS

Nick Marks (Argonne National Laboratory)

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Lightning Talk

Many developers, in the EPICS community and otherwise, spend the majority of their time within a terminal environment, utilizing command-line tools and text-based editors. However, interacting with EPICS Process Variables (PVs) during development and testing often requires switching to comparatively heavy graphical display managers. This talk introduces PVTUI, a C++ library designed to bridge...

16. python clients of the Archiver Appliance

Sky Brewer (ESS)

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Lightning Talk

Overview of a collection of python libraries for interacting with the Archiver Appliance.

• For retrieval, via protobuf
• For bulk management changes with clear checking

52. Remote integration and commissioning of an EPICS-controlled accelerator

Gabriel Desmarchelier

Others

Talk

Due to the difficult geopoltical context, travelling to the site of the SARAF accelerator is no longer possible. Thus, CEA/Irfu, in collaboration with SNRC, has taken a variety of measures to enable the remote integration and commissiong of the EPICS control system. The notable measures are the enhanced testing of software and firmware deliveries; the construction of a test bench dedicated to...

9. RTEMS 6 Migration and Driver Development for Motorola VME Boards

Dr Ran Hong (Argonne National Laboratory)

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Talk

RTEMS is a versatile, open-source real-time operating system (RTOS) widely utilized in embedded devices. At the Advanced Photon Source (APS), an initiative is underway to transition VME-based Input/Output Controllers (IOCs) from VxWorks to RTEMS. As RTEMS6.1 is released and the package libbsd becomes the standard network stack that supports NFSv4, gaps remain in Board Support Packages (BSPs)...

69. Second phase of beamline control system upgrades at SLS 2.0

Alvin Samuel Acerbo (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Status reports

Talk

Having successfully reached key milestones of the SLS 2.0 machine upgrade and brought a first suite of beamlines into operation, the SLS 2.0 project has transitioned from initial commissioning activities toward large-scale beamline upgrades. Phases 0 and 1 validated core technical solutions and the controls hardware portfolio and implemented them on a first suite of beamlines. Building on this...

23. Shared Ansible Roles for EPICS, Phoebus and Tools

Ralph Lange (ITER Organization)

System Management

Lightning Talk

Based on experience collected at multiple EPICS sites and in the context of the EPICS Training-VM, we found Ansible a useful tool to install and manage the configuration of EPICS installations.
So we recently decided to start an effort to develop and share a set of Ansible roles to manage EPICS Base, EPICS Modules, Phoebus and the EPICS Services.

This project is in a very early stage....

55. SSH Monitor

Stephane Tzvetkov (CEA Paris Saclay)

Experiment control, data acquisition, data analysis, AI/ML

Talk

SSH Monitor is a special EPICS IOC which enables you to supervise any target machine through SSH commands (i.e. shell instructions executed through SSH connection).

In fact, SSH Monitor is made in such a way that it allows you to monitor absolutely any data, as long as you can come up with a shell instruction that can retrieve that data.

This tool can be very handy for:

• People...

71. The machine protection system for the TITAN accelerator

Yannick Mariette (CEA Paris-Saclay)

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Talk

This presentation outlines the architecture of the machine protection system for the Titan accelerator, with an emphasis on the rapid protection system based on MTCA boards.

68. The SPIRAL2 EPICS Control System

M. Christophe Haquin (GANIL/CEA)

Status reports

Talk

Description of the SPIRAL2 Control System and perspective for the upcoming upgrades: DESIR, S3, NEWGAIN

28. Three-Tiered Software Architecture at LANSCE

Eric Westbrook (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Lightning Talk

The classical three-tiered architecture model has been well-known for many years. It involves separating the software responsibilities for user interface (presentation layer), functions and methodologies (business logic layer), and data storage (data layer) into distinct functional and physical implementations. However, many aging software inventories in long-lived accelerator facilities do...

51. Trace: A Live and Archived Data Plotting Tool for PyDM

Zachary Domke (Stanford University)

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Lightning Talk

Trace is an open-source plotting tool developed at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for visualizing both live and archived EPICS Process Variable data within the PyDM framework. Built on PyDM, PyQt, and PyQtGraph, Trace allows users to configure and display PV data across multiple axes with intuitive per-curve and per-axis controls, making it a practical tool for controls engineers,...

53. tree-sitter-epics: EPICS languages parsers for tool building

M. Gabriel Desmarchelier (CEA Paris-Saclay), Rémi Nicole (CEA Paris-Saclay)

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Talk

Presenting tree-sitter-epics! A collection of parsers for various EPICS languages, based on the tree-sitter library.

These parsers can analyze .db, .dbd, .substitutions, .cmd, SNL's .st, and StreamDevice's .proto files, enabling you to build tools such as documentation generators, diagram generators, LSPs, etc.

In this presentation, we'll see:

• a collection of tools that...

43. uTCA White Rabbit Timing and Trigger System for Distributed Deterministic Control

Antonio Miguel Lopez Antequera (SAFRAN Electronics & Defense Spain S.L.U.)

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Talk

Deterministic timing is a key enabler for the coordinated operation of accelerator and fusion facilities. This work presents WR-TTS, a White Rabbit timing and triggering system in uTCA form factor developed for distributed trigger and gate generation, event capture, and nanosecond timestamping. Based on a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ SoC and White Rabbit, the platform combines FPGA real-time...

56. Visualization of an EPICS-Controlled Six-Axis Robotic Arm

Katharina Merle (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany)

User Interfaces, Client Tools, Operational Tools

Lightning Talk

We present a small Python-based visualization of an EPICS-controlled six-axis robotic arm.

50. WAGO Interlock a Zero-Code Hardware Safety Interlock Configuration for EPICS Facilities

Ernesto Paiser (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Hardware, Driver/Device support

Talk

Configuring hardware safety interlocks at synchrotron facilities has traditionally required PLC
expertise, custom ladder logic programming, and specialist support --- creating bottlenecks that
slow scientific operations. We present \textbf{WAGO Interlock}, an open-source tool jointly
developed by the Advanced Light Source (ALS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and the
European...

40. What's new in EPICS 7.0.10

Simon Rose (European Spallation Source ERIC)

EPICS Core

Lightning Talk

EPICS 7.0.10 was released in February 2026. This talk will cover what’s new and what changed in that release.

7. Why EPNix?

M. Rémi Nicole (CEA Paris-Saclay)

System Management

Talk

[EPNix][1] is a project that enables you to build, package, deploy IOCs and EPICS-related software by using the Nix package manager

With all these already existing deployment and packaging tools, why was EPNix created?

We will discuss the origin story of this EPICS packaging and deployment tool:

• how and why it was created,
• how we are using it,
• and its impact on human...