I have been investigating the Red Pitaya board for the past few months and we've been very impressed with its accessibility and usefulness for research. I developed a really special feedback controller, and we are working on making a real-time quantum bit measurement system. In particular, unlike almost any other FPGA solution we've encountered, the Red Pitaya has allowed us to focus on the problems at hand rather than spending all of our time worrying about getting data in and out of the FPGA. This is especially hard to find in boards with fast A/D and D/A.
Today we have great news to share with you! The new Red Pitaya Beta OS v 1.04-6 for STEMlab 125-14, 125-10 & SDRlab 122-16 models is now available. Read on for more information and scroll down to download it for free!
Software-defined radio (SDR) is a radio communication system where components that have been traditionally implemented in hardware (e.g. mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators, detectors, etc.) are instead implemented by means of software on a personal computer or embedded system.
A basic SDR system may consist of a personal computer running SDR software that interfaces with analog-to-digital converter over USB or ethernet, preceded by some form of RF front end with RF amplifiers, filters and attenuators.
Whilst the Red Pitaya STEMlab has a huge amount of functionality, it is very easy to set up and use. Instructions are available on the Red Pitaya website.
The following essential items needed to start are already included in each RedPitaya kits available from our WEB store
New Red Pitaya Beta OS v1.03 is released for all Red Pitaya products. Besides general improvements, we have implemented SCPI server support for SIGNALlab 250-12. The new OS can be downloaded for free.
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