Red Pitaya FPGA lab instrument on sale

[Terry Fox]

For those of you that are into neat toys (possibly very useful), Elektor magazine has a sale right now on the Red Pitaya board.  It is VERY interesting, as it is a Xilinx FPGA/SOC (Zynq I think) board with an integrated 2-channel, 125MHz sampling (14-bit) ADC, 2-channel 125MHz DAC, and slower ADCs, DACs, and other junk, all on a credit-sized board.  It is billed as an instrument or measurement tool.  While it claims to be open-source, some are upset because schematics are not available.  That doesn’t bother me, as long as there is enough other documentation and examples that I can play with.

They also already have firmware to make it an oscilloscope (50MHz), signal generator, spectrum analyzer, SDR!, LCR meter, and other things.

Normally the board sells for $500 or so, Elektor is selling it at slightly over half-off!  It’s only $239 if you have an Elektor subscription, slightly more if you don’t ($266).  Elektor also has option packages available.

I don’t have one yet, but just ordered one.  It appears to be a very nice board for the price.  And, it has been converted to an SDR, as shown on a recent Hackaday.

I’m on travel at the moment, but can send more info when I get back home.

A few links:
Red Pitaya web site: http://redpitaya.com/
Elektor Red Pitaya: http://www.elektor.com/red-pitaya-instrument
Hackaday SDR: http://hackaday.com/2015/03/02/using-the-red-pitaya-as-an-sdr/
Red Pitaya SDR page: http://pavel-demin.github.io/red-pitaya-notes/sdr-receiver/

73, Terry, N4TLF
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