EPICS only for large installations?

Since EPICS has proven itself in large installations (synchrotron, telescopes, accelerators, etc.), the myth persists that it is not suitable for small and medium-sized experiments and that only LabView & Co. can be used there.

• Exactly the opposite is the case.

The footprint of EPICS is much smaller than that of e.g. LabView

• Resource requirements LabView (also requires Windows with costs)

• Resource requirements EPICS (multiplatform, also Linux, MacOs, etc.)

I.e. EPICS can also be used on very cheap single board computers (RaspberryPi) and microControllers (Zynq).