About a week ago I posted here a question regarding a reasonable priced
logic analyzer. Here is a follow up and summary of our findings.

We got an Acute PKLA-116 logic analyzer
(http://www.acute.com.tw/ENGLISH/Spec-PKLA1000.HTM) from  Team Solutions
(http://www.team-solutions.com/). It costs us 700$ and we got it in two
days.

This LA is USB based and has only the pod that connects to the computer's
USB port. No external power supply or an external controller is needed, just
the pod, which is by the way very light, so light that one can think it is
empty. The device comes in a nice soft case that holds the pod, USB wire,
and micro hooks. The sampling rate is up to 200MHZ and it can also use an
external clock (did not try that). The trigger can be a combination a
combination or up/down transition of all the 16 inputs (or a subset of
them). The sampling rate and the voltage threshold are set by software.

The software is very simple to use and friendly. It allows to save
configurations, print captured signals, assign names to signals and group
individual signals into multi bit signals. You can download the software
from Acute's web site and play with it. If it does not find the hardware it
entered demo mode and allow you to use simulated signals.

My wish list for this product include only two items. One is an external
trigger output so I can trigger an oscilloscope to the LA trigger event. The
other one is the ability to extend the LA to more than 16 signals.

Overall this is a great product and would recommend it to anybody that looks
for a good LA in that price range (if you can afford to pay more, take a
look at http://www.nci-usa.com). If you are looking for a cheaper LA, take a
look at http://www.cwav.com/products.htm#Top (only 3MHZ sample rate, 8
signals).

Tal

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