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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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 From my [a little outdated ] experience, though, the Salea software is a bit more slick and polished, but the AD software & hardware has more features (and I think higher bandwidth, I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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">Charles J. Lord, PE via TriEmbed</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, February 22, 2021 8:35 PM<br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">Triangle Embedded Computing Discussion</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [TriEmbed] MSO may grow on you Re: Budget minded oscilloscope</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html><div dir="ltr"><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><div><br></div><div>Charles<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 9:23 AM Brian via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Realizing 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>
<br>
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>
<br>
PicoScope 3000-series scopes are available in MSO form.<br>
<br>
Both are USB devices that depend on a host PC for control and display.<br>
<br>
$0.02,<br>
-Brian<br>
<br>
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>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Sunday, February 21, 2021, 9:15:14 PM EST, Pete Soper via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> 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>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Charles J. Lord, PE, HKN<br></div><div>President, Blue Ridge Advanced Design and Automation<br></div><div><span>Consultants Network Chair, IEEE WNC Section <br></span></div><div>Chair, IEEE NC Council</div><div></div><div>IEEE SoutheastCon Steering Committee</div><div>Member, IEEE-USA AICNCC<br></div>Co-Chair, IEEE SoutheastCon 2020</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:c.j.lord@ieee.org" target="_blank">c.j.lord@ieee.org</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>