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I used a Salae-16 back in the day all the time with a RIGOL 2
channel oscope and found that allowed me to solve most any kind of
problem I would face as an embedded C developer. The Salae software
was nice then so I would anticipate it must be pretty awesome now.<br>
<br>
At home I use a sigrok board
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sigrok.org/wiki/Noname_LHT00SU1">https://sigrok.org/wiki/Noname_LHT00SU1</a>) which for my hobby
projects work great with pulseview. I just run a Linux AppImage
version on a Ubuntu 18.04 machine. <br>
<br>
I have a 2 channel handheld oscope which is fine for the low
frequency analog signals I deal with or checking digital signals
that are being munged somehow.<br>
<br>
I sometimes get close to ordering a RIGOL or Siglent oscope when
I'm stuck on a problem and my oscope doesn't seem up to the task but
I have always figured it out before going that far!<br>
<br>
I like the cost of the combo USB oscope/logic analyzer but find I
like having a physical oscope so I can quickly tweak the settings
without having to mess with a mouse/keyboard. I'm the same way with
cars - I want a big wall of switches like an Apollo module instead
of a touchscreen I can't find a button by feel on. :)<br>
<br>
Michael Fulbright<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/23/21 2:15 AM, Jon Wolfe via
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you like the Salae-8, you’d like the
Analog Discovery. They are very comparable. The original Salae
8 is discontinued, and they now have the “Pro 8” and “Pro 16”,
which are considerably more ($700-$1000). I used the Salae
software for a little while a few years ago. From my [a little
outdated ] experience, though, the Salea software is a bit
more slick and polished, but the AD software & hardware
has more features (and I think higher bandwidth, I might be
wrong on that though), with a lower price (also AD has a
student discount price, though both the student and non
student prices seem to have gone up a bit from when I bought
mine, the student price is now the same as the non student
price I paid a few years ago) . </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you really want a decent LA for rock
bottom $, you can get work-alike devices of the older Salea
hardware on ebay for $20-$50, with very similar specs, and
most of them work with Sigrok open source software. I have one
of those I think I picked up even cheaper, like $10, if I
didn’t mind waiting 2 months for shipping from Shenzhen. I
used that for a little while as my “day to day” logic analyzer
to reduce risk of frying my more expensive scopes by doing
something dumb. Then I realized that was kind of silly. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I probably have half a dozen scopes and
logic analyzers, maybe more, none of them are “pro” level, all
entry level, or hobbyist, and they all have a lot of overlaps
in functionality, but most of them have one or two unique
features that once in a while sets it apart as the right one
to use for a certain circumstance. </p>
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<b>Sent: </b>Monday, February 22, 2021 8:35 PM<br>
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<div>While everyone is hopping on the discussion, I also would
plug my Salae 8-channel. The software continues to improve for
it and it does all of the serial/i2c/CAN/etc protocols that I
have needed (so far). I keep saying I will get a digital scope
when my Tek 475 dies, but I think it is going to live forever
LOL.</div>
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that it's not necessarily what one might put in the <br>
"budget-friendly" range, I thought I'd plug both Pico
Technology and <br>
Saleae. I have a 4-channel USB DSO PicoScope (3000 series,
~$600-$2400 <br>
depending on options) and a 16-channel logic analyzer from
Saleae (an <br>
older, now discontinued digital-only model). They both work
very well, <br>
plus both offer various levels of API/SDK availability if
you're keen on <br>
writing your own logging or analysis code.<br>
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Saleae's current 16-channel analyzers are 50 MS/s MSOs, but
the one I <br>
have is not, so I can't speak to the quality of analog
measurements. <br>
The PicoScope 3000 series is 1 GS/s.<br>
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PicoScope 3000-series scopes are available in MSO form.<br>
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Both are USB devices that depend on a host PC for control and
display.<br>
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$0.02,<br>
-Brian<br>
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On 2/22/21 9:00 AM, John Vaughters via TriEmbed wrote:<br>
> Pete,<br>
> <br>
> Which Rigol model do you own?<br>
> <br>
> I very much agree with you. I don't want to plop $400-500
down just to get a scope, then realize I really needed to
plop$1000-1500 to get what I needed and now had waste
$400-500.<br>
> <br>
> John Vaughters<br>
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> On Sunday, February 21, 2021, 9:15:14 PM EST, Pete Soper
via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org"
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> If you think you might be starting to play a long game
consider getting<br>
> a "mixed signal" 'scope that can capture, trigger on, and
decode a set<br>
> of digital signals as well as providing analog
measurements, and<br>
> consider I2C/SPI/UART/USART decoding essential, if only
as an option<br>
> (i.e. don't drop the money for something that can't
eventually decode<br>
> these dead common serial modes unless you know you're
only dipping a toe<br>
> in). I went a long time with my Rigol without an
"unavoidable use case"<br>
> for logic signals involved with debugging new hardware,
but when those<br>
> use cases finally came around it was nice to have the
capability and not<br>
> be looking around for another piece of equipment, most
especially when<br>
> you need to see what's going on with several signals at
once. In about<br>
> seven years I think I've topped out with two analog and
seven or eight<br>
> digital signals with one set of gadgets. The integration
of digital and<br>
> analog is a real plus, for instance where you need to
jump around<br>
> between figuring out a noise issue vs something basically
wrong with a<br>
> serial line like with I2C. And of course you can
correlate analog such<br>
> as with A/D converters with digital signals feeding them
to sort out issues.<br>
> <br>
> -Pete<br>
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