+1 for the Saleae Logic. It's a very nice tool.

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Denny Esterline <desterline@gmail.com>wrot=
e:

> I'm in the middle of a CAN project myself. I have Microchip's CANalyzer..=
...
> it's a less then perfectly polished device, but for the ~$100 US they
> charge... not a bad tool. It was very useful early when I only had one of
> my CAN nodes communicating and I could generate packets with it. Now I
> mostly use it's logging features and pull the data into Excel to filter a=
nd
> sort.
>
> The other tool I must recommend is Salae Logic http://www.saleae.com/logi=
cThey
> have a couple versions, but the cheaper one is an eight channel logic
> analyzer that does bus traffic decoding for most of the serial protocols
> (including CAN) for ~$150 US. Definitely a useful tool for me.
>
> -Denny
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Kardasinski, Milosz <
> Milosz.Kardasinski@analog.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a pet project which involves reverse engineering frames on an
> > automotive CAN bus, looking for data from/to a specific module. Google
> > searching for an affordable CAN bus analyzer tool, returned one made by
> > Microchip. Does anyone have any experience with this tool? Or can
> recommend
> > another brand. I will be working with the J1939 bus standard.
> >
> > MK.
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