WTB: Logic Analyser

Dec 07, 2007 2 Replies
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Hello,



I'm in the market for a new LA. Well, I have money burning a hole in my pocket..



At the moment I have a Thurlby LA4800 48-channel 25Mhz all-in-one lightweight box with an LCD screen. The capture depth is about 2K.



I'm just looking for recommendations really? :-) One of those PC/USB-style things might well be considered. I saw one of those PC-Scope things years ago so that kind of put me off for life, that and the host software was buggy. Things may have progressed?



Rough Requirements / Maybes;



*Lightweight
*Electrically Sound
*Robust Firmware / Host Software
*32-channels
*100Mhz Sample
*1Mbyte Depth / Per Channel
*SPI Decode Facility / Data Extrapolation

The sampling depth up above I'm not too sure about as that just seems incredible in comparison to what I have at the moment, but am really just looking to spend say £200-300 tops. UK-based.



TIA,



Alison :-)


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Well, there are these lads and they're based in Suffolk (er, ah, your original Suffolk, not the one out by me)

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The Ant18e is not as wide or as deep as your wish list, though. Don't know about the SPI. It does include a trigger-out, which can be useful. I carried around it's older, smaller sibling (Ant8) for years as part of my notebook PC kit. Eventually sold that to a mate to buy ...

... a LogicPort LC1034 from

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Not in the UK, however. It has a small-ish buffer but the samples are timestamped so you're storing N transitions not just N samples. Does have SPI (and 232 and I2C) decoding. The host software is downloadable and can run in demo mode with some included sample captures.

Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
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Excellent, thanks for that Rich!! :-)

The RockyLogic people aren't too far from me actually.. Might be worth a look in.

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