RS Components signs global distribution deal with Red Pitaya

RS Components has signed an exclusive global deal with Red Pitaya to distribute open-source test and measurement instrument.

Agreement with RS is said to enable the test and measurement start-up company to deliver affordable open-source measurement instruments to the mass market. RS Components will distribute the company’s first product: a single-board open instrumentation and control platform.

Red Pitaya has seen strong support from the wider engineering community following a Kickstarter funding campaign, where the target was achieved five-fold. The early interest in Red Pitaya can be attributed to the ecosystem approach, combining an Xilinx-based hardware platform with an open-source online repository of applications such as a waveform generator, oscilloscope and spectrum analyser.

The first commercial production of the Red Pitaya instrument and applications will be available exclusively from RS later this year. Red Pitaya is based on the GNU/Linux operating system and can be programmed at different levels using a variety of software interfaces, including: HDL, C/C++, scripting languages and HTML-based web interfaces.