On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Jesse Lackey wrote: > I second this recommendation... I bought one nearly 3? years ago, didn't > use it once until 2 weeks ago, but for debugging my newbie crude (and > that's being generous) VHDL it has been great. Does CAN, I2C, SPI, > serial. I've only used the SPI. The configuration of what signal is > what, special ignore-first-bit type things, and the display format is > pretty flexible. > > I can see how it would be useful for firmware debugging of serial rx/tx > and other miscellany. For FPGA work it is a must-have. > > J > > > Brian Harris wrote: > > I use this as a logic analyser and for serial and SPI interpreting > > almost daily: > > http://www.pctestinstruments.com/ > > > > It revolutionized my work. > > More useful and easier than debuggers. > I put my vote in for this as well, it has paid for itself many times over, I have made up extra test jigs using old cdrom IDE cables (no blanked pin) and this makes it dead easy to switch between jobs. My last task for it was diag on an old cmos logic board, with 4515, 4028, 4011, 4012 16x7seg drivers, and I had to find where unwanted inhibit pulses were being passed to the 4515, turns out the data to the 4515 was being changed before the inhibit was inactive, shorten the inhibit pulse - problem solved. unit also runs fine in a XP session inside Virtualbox with a Ubuntu host. Andrew Burchill -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist