Are you interested in Reviewing Red Pitaya's Hardware? We have the STEMlab 125-14 PRO Gen 2

OwainM 1 month ago

We have the opportunity to offer up the STEMlab 125-14 PRO Gen 2 Starter Kit - which is available on our online store .

Here's a little bit about the hardware:

What do you think?

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scottiebabe 1 month ago +5

https://content.redpitaya.com/blog/how-to-build-a-diy-fmcw-radar-with-red-pitaya-complete-student-guide
michaelkellett 1 month ago in reply to scottiebabe +4

Thanks for the reference community.element14.com/.../scottiebabe An interesting project but the Red Pitaya involvement was not very significant and their hype is a bit irksome. Full kudos to the student…
chloro 1 month ago +2

To me, this is mostly an accurate baseband measurement platform. If antennas are to be considered, it would be critical to specify the frequency range for operation, such as below 60 MHz operation, or…

arvindsa 1 month ago

These are some serious electronics, and totally beyond my skillset.. Would love to know more about them
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DAB 1 month ago

Very interesting piece of gear.

What about software support?
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battlecoder 1 month ago

Looks really interesting. I *love* signal acquisition boards and measurement equipment. This seems to haven an overlap with the capabilities of the Analog Discovery boards, which I'm familiar with.
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crisdeodates 1 month ago

The product looks like a very serious professional-grade FPGA-based test and measurement instrument. I am not highly skilled in using these devices, but would definitely love an opportunity to learn, develop and review.

michaelkellett 1 month ago

I think it would be worth including the more expensive add ons like the LCR kit and the Vector Network Analyser.

The Red Pitaya has been around for a while and occupies a strange niche not quite in the scope market and not quite in the dev board space.

It's a fairly open hardware design which allows the possibility of using it as a platform for some special things but the learning curve to do so is very demanding.

Buying or reviewing one if you wanted a cheap scope will be disappointing - the general purpose scope side of the hardware doesn't make it to the most basic Rigol or Picoscope class.

But it does have an accessible combination of Zynq (FPGA + ARM) and a high performance (although slow by scope standards) ADC and DAC.

Reviewers should be aware that any project that stretches its potential will represent hundreds or more likely thousands of hours of work.

It is good value for money compared with other FPGA and FPGA + analogue acquisition boards and has better dev support than most.

But I don't have a project on the horizon where it fits so I won't apply to review it.

I'm hoping you can find someone who has the knowledge, time and a matching project to do it justice.

MK
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gpolder 1 month ago

Although it's existing already a couple of years, it's a nice platform to build a stand alone ham radio SDR transceiver. Some additional hardware is needed though, like audio codec, antenna switching (relais/pin diodes) amplifier.
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scottiebabe 1 month ago

https://content.redpitaya.com/blog/how-to-build-a-diy-fmcw-radar-with-red-pitaya-complete-student-guide
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robogary 1 month ago in reply to scottiebabe

I'd like to strap one of those on my bumper and watch the cops go nuts.
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JWx 1 month ago in reply to robogary

typical sport exhaust...
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scottiebabe 1 month ago in reply to robogary

Looks farm more exciting than the current modules...
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