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pavel-demin / red-pitaya-notes

Notes on the Red Pitaya Open Source Instrument
http://pavel-demin.github.io/red-pitaya-notes/
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Hopefully interesting hint: SDR ADALM Pluto #808

Closed df8oe closed 5 years ago

df8oe commented 5 years ago

Hi Pavel,

not an issue at all - but something which might be interesting. Adalm Pluto is a SDR TRX which works from 70MHz...6GHz in full duplex. It uses AD9363 transceiver chip and same Zync FPGA-SOC as RP - so I think most of your work is adaptable in a not very difficult way. The hardware costs are ~140,-- Euros and it starts at the frequency RP ends so it would be a very nice addition. Adding your multiwspr and HPSDR-TRX would cover very interesting bands (I am talking about new geostationair amateur radio satellite Es'Hail) and would give Adalm Pluto full compatibility to HPSDR software. A network device over USB is already present... I am not sure if you are interested to support this device, too. If not: Maybe here are some reading who wants to start with such a project?

pavel-demin commented 5 years ago

I think that this kind of requests should be addressed to the developers who are already working with ADALM-PLUTO: https://github.com/unixpunk/PlutoWeb

I know about ADALM-PLUTO. At some point, I was interested to buy it for under 100 euros but it wasn't easily available. Now, it's easily available but it's more expensive.

Since ADALM-PLUTO was designed as a very basic learning module, compared to the Red Pitaya boards, ADALM-PLUTO has some limitations:

At the moment, I'm not very interested in developing anything for such a limited device. I'd rather use the applications developed by others.

df8oe commented 5 years ago

Hi Pavel, many thanks for coming back to my posting. Of course I understand your argumentation. Let me tell you that I enjoy your really nice work on RP very much - I love it! Good luck to you and I stay tuned for everything what will come in the future from you :)

satfan52 commented 5 years ago

I own a Pluto and I confirm that to date there are quite a few SDR transceiver applications that work with it already: SDR-Angel, SDR-Console 3 and I understand that development is ongoing for linhpsdr and QUISK (via the soapySDR module). So not too sure what a port of the hpsdr compatible transceiver application could bring to the party. However what could be a true "killing" is a port of the red-pitaya VNA application to the Pluto (if that is technically feasible)

pavel-demin commented 5 years ago

However what could be a true "killing" is a port of the red-pitaya VNA application to the Pluto (if that is technically feasible)

I think that this kind of requests should be addressed to the developers of the ADI IIO Oscilloscope and the default FPGA configuration for ADALM-PLUTO:

https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/iio-oscilloscope https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/hdl/tree/master/projects/pluto

Maybe they would be interested in adding the VNA functionality to the ADI IIO Oscilloscope.

satfan52 commented 5 years ago

Actually, the Scopy app under development will be supported by the Pluto and will offer a network analyser app. https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/iio-oscilloscope/issues/143#issuecomment-470993465