Welcome to NICOS 2.1.2pre

NICOS is a network-based control system written for neutron scattering instruments at the FRM II. Its main goals are flexibility, ease of use and maintenance and reusability.

This version of NICOS, called NICOS-2, is a completely rewritten code base that still incorporates much the design and philosophy of NICOS version 1.

Documentation contents:

• Installing NICOS
  • Get the source code
  • Requirements
  • Configure and build in-place for experimenting
  • Configure and build the distribution at an instrument
• Components of the NICOS system
• Configuring NICOS: Setups
  • Setup files
  • Entries in the devices dictionary
  • The sysconfig dictionary
• User Commands
  • Getting help
  • Output commands
  • Setup-related commands
  • Experiment-related commands
  • Script-related commands
  • Notification commands
  • Miscellaneous commands
  • Device commands
  • Measuring commands
  • Scanning commands
  • On-line analysis commands
  • Triple-axis commands
• Device classes
  • System devices
    • Experiment
    • Instrument
    • Data Sinks
    • Notifiers
  • Abstract device classes
    • Axis-related classes
    • Detector-related classes
  • Generic device classes
    • Axis class
    • Slit class
    • Switcher classes
    • Manual moveable classes
    • Devices communicating via cache
    • System related devices
    • Virtual devices for testing
  • Triple-Axis spectrometer classes
  • Taco classes
    • Taco base class
    • Taco FRM-II detector classes
    • Taco axis-related classes
    • Power supply classes
    • Temperature control classes
    • I/O classes
  • IPC Göttingen classes
    • Communication
    • Stepper Motors
    • Coders
    • 4-Wing Slits
    • Digital I/O
• Session API reference
• Device API reference
  • Device interface
  • Device classes
    • Device
    • Readable
    • Moveable
    • Measurable
  • Mixin classes
    • HasLimits
    • HasOffset
    • HasPrecision
• Further NICOS API
  • Exceptions
  • Parameter definition
    • Converter functions
  • Status values
  • Utilities
  • Writing commands
• Project Modules
  • nicos Package
    • nicos Package
    • data Module
    • experiment Module
    • instrument Module
    • ipc Module
    • iseg Module
    • notify Module
    • poller Module
    • scan Module
    • taco_stubs Module
    • toni Module
    • Subpackages
• Changelog for NICOS 2
• Glossary

• Index
• Module Index