A simple logic-analyzer design is compatible with all versions of Windows and pushes the PIC 18C252 chip to its speed limit to achieve a 1-MHz sampling rate (Figure 1). The circuit can examine three ...

The basic test instrument suite — a bench power supply, a good multimeter and perhaps an oscilloscope — is extremely flexible, but not exactly “plug and play” when it comes to diagnosing problems with ...

Oscium’s “new LogiScope”:http://www.oscium.com/products… is a 100MHz logic analyzer with 16 channels that plugs into an iPad, iPhone or an iPod Touch(1). My ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a hands-on look at a compact logic analyzer, a handwriting calculator app, and sewable electronics. My Lab Bench has been piling up with stuff to check out, and I ...

Nutter offers advice and resources for a person who wants to get the most out of his protocol analyzer After making several requests to get a protocol analyzer, we finally got the go-ahead to purchase ...

Today, I’d like to highlight a tool that brings your hacking skills to a whole new level, and does that without breaking the bank – in fact, given just how much debugging time you can save, how many ...

How many signals do you need to capture and analyze? Be sure to take into account all of the buses and signals that you must acquire simultaneously. A logic analyzer's channel count maps directly on a ...