Shield puts Click modules on Red Pitaya FPGA board

MikroElektronika has announced a shield board that adapts its Click modules to Red Pitaya, the FPGA software-defined instrument and development tool,

“The size of a credit card, Red Pitaya combines the functionalities of oscilloscope, signal generator and spectrum analyzer with programming capabilities and open-source software,” said MikroE.

There are two sockets for Click boards (each with switchable 3.3 and 5V operation), and power can come through an 12 to 24V external power supply or via USB Type C.

“One distinctive feature of the shield is its shuttle-like connector, purpose-built for logic analyser connection,” said MikroE. “This is your gateway to monitoring and analysing SPI, UART, or I²C signals.”

Also on board is a ZL40213 LVDS clock fan-out buffer which take external or internal clock sources and distribute them off-board.

Red Pitaya is built around a Xilinx ZYNQ 7010 FPGA which has dual Arm Cortex-A9 cores and samples at 125Msample/s from two simultaneous inputs. It is compatibel with Linux, Windows PC, Android and IOS, and can be controlled remotely using C, LabVIEW, MatLab, Python or Scilab. Web apps include: spectrum, Bode, logic and vector network analysers, oscilloscope, signal generator, and software-defined radio.

Find the shield here and the Red Pitaya in the photo here