13. Introduction

Welcome to the Software and Hardware Developers handbook of REDAC, the Reconfigurable Discrete Analog Computer. Please ensure you have read the User manual before approaching this part of the system documentation.

REDAC is primarily supposed to be used by engineers and scientists. Depending on your domain of expertise, it may be sufficient for you to adopt your problems to the programming interfaces provided by REDAC. This developer manual is primarily meant for people who want or need to know more about the internals of REDAC analog and digital parts.

Please note that the level of access to the inner workings of the system depends on your particular legal situation: Despite some parts of REDAC are open sourced (or supposed to be open sourced soon), most of the system is neither open source nor open hardware. You, your institute or your company may need to purchase a license, sign a non disclosure agreement (NDA) or take another other legal action in order to gain access to the information of interest. Please contact your systems operator or contact person for further information.