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NICOS is a Python based control system developed at FRM-II. The general software documentation can be found here. Although NICOS is a fully fledged control system ISIS are currently only using it as a script server.

• Getting Started: How to install Nicos on Windows.
• Running Nicos: How to run Nicos.
• Instrument Configuration: How to set up and configure a new Nicos instrument.
• Script server design: The original design document for what a script server at ISIS would be required to do.
• Initial evaluation: An evaluation of Nicos and its suitability for integration into the IBEX project.

• Testing Nicos
• Nicos commands
• Developing nicos-core
• Nicos notes: Issues and developer items around NICOS including the git window it uses