Re: Logic Analyzer

"I've been looking for a logic analyzer and was wondering what you guys
recommend."

here is a quick description of everything on your list:

9005, 9010 - not really a logic analyzer, more like an in circuit emulator
             lets you read / write devices on the microprocessor bus, to simple
             tests

1600, 1607, 1610 - very early logic analyzers, quite primitive. they had one
                   interesting feature that you could display an 8 x 8 input
                   grid as a 'constelation' vector pattern, which is fun to
                   watch :-)

1611 / 1615 - these were the first HP analyzers that I used in the early 80's
              they are microprocessor based, and the 1611's were set up for
              a single kind of microprocessor (have pods that plug into the
              microprocessor socket) 1615's were general purpose analyzers.

1630's - second generation HP analyzers. they are a bit of a pain to set up
         since they don't have built in setup storage

1650/16500 - first of the 'modern' HP anaylzers. still pretty expensive, though

I've used the Tek analyzers a lot less than the HP's (we had one 1200 series at
Apple). I noticed most models don't have any way to save setups.

We've also had a few Arium analyzers around here, the problem with 'modern'
analyzers is you have to make sure to get the bootstrap software. I've also
used Nicolet's, and they were kind of nice in that they were just CP/M boxes
with anaylzer software, and it was fairly easy to write dissassemblers and
things for them.

If you can find one, a Biomation CLAS isn't bad. I have a couple of them
that I've picked up cheap because people don't know how to hook them up
(they are SCSI devices that talk to a Macintosh)
Received on Tue Feb 23 12:50:53 1999