The Open Source Instruments (OSI) website hosts over two million words of documentation. Each device has its own user manual and its own own development log. The user manual provides specifications and instructions for using the device. The development log provides a detailed account of every step of the device's development. In the sidebar on the left you will find a link to a list of all OSI electronic circuit manuals. At the bottom of each manual is a chapter called "Design" that contains a link to the circuit development log. The OSI Chatbot, to which you will find a link on the sidebar, has available to it the user manuals of all electronic circuits in active production or for which we still maintain support. The OSI Chatbot does not have available to it any of the development logs.
The OSI Chatbot is one way to find the documentation you need, and may be the fastest way, but it works well only if you provide it with self-contained and detailed questions. It does not do as well if your questions are sparse or ambiguous. In the sidebar to the left, we provide links to pages that list manuals, guides, and tutorials for our circuits, instruments, and software. Our hope is that by clicking on the sidebar you will find a link to the document you are looking for, without having to phrase a self-contained and detailed question for the chatbot.
Our data acquisition hardware we call the Long-Wire Data Acquisition (LWDAQ) system. The LWDAQ hardware has its own detailed specification, to which you will find a link after clicking on Guides and Manuals in the sidebar. The LWDAQ hardware is controlled and read out by our LWDAQ Software, which we present and describe in the LWDAQ User Manual, which you will likewise find a link to after clicking on Guides and Manuals in the sidebar.
An archive of the work done by OSI employees and others at the Brandeis University High Energy Physics Electronics Shop during the years 1995-2012 is available in the BNDHEP branch of the OSI website, which is also accessible through the archive's long-standing bndhep.net domain name. This work includes the Brandeis CCD Angle Monitor (BCAM), the Long-Wire Data Acquisition System (LWDAQ), and many other alignment instruments manufactured by BNDHEP and installed in the ATLAS detector at CERN. In the sidebar on the left, you will find links to a list of BNDHEP electronic circuit manuals and to the BNDHEP archive landing page.