In my ongoing quest for some new equipment, I'm also looking for a small logic analyzer of some sort. I don't really want (or have room for) a big CRT based analyzer even though the price is right on e-bay.
I'm willing to go with a USB based LA if they work as advertised. So far the USBEE looks to be pretty good if it really works. The one I'm looking at (ZX) has only 8 inputs, but captures 24Msa/s. It has a 1M buffer internally, but can rocket data to the PC at the full 24Msa/s if the machine is fast enough making for incredible capture depth ability. Anybody use one? Anybody know of something better in the $400-$500 range? I know the ZX lists for $895, but I can obtain one for about $400.
All input welcome on your favorite logic analyzers.
Also, any thoughts on PC based scopes (like CleverScope) vs. regular DSOs? CleverScope looks fairly impressive even sized up against a "real" scope. A dual channel scope and logic analyzer for less than $1200 is interesting to me. It would be a little odd at first, but the PC centric approach might not be a bad way to go. I already have one sitting near by for editing/assembling code, flashing PICs and/or displaying/sending serial data to a project. Maybe one screen is the way to go?