Hi. Looking to buy a usb small, economic, and pc based logic analyzer, 8 channels min. I used to have a small parallel interface logic analyzer, but it is time to update to a USB interfaced one. I found a lot of different offering on ebay/aliexpress for cheap, unexpensive ones.
I’m open to suggestion and would like to hear from other members that have more knowledge than me of the current market offering.
Seems there is a lot more unexpensive options these days than 20 years ago.
For example, just a few examples:
LA2016: New LA2016 USB Logic Analyzer 200M MAX Sample Rate 16Channels 2M PWM | eBay
Hantek, more serious 32ch module, but also more expensive: 32CH 150MHz 400MSa/s Digital Multimeter Logic Bus Analyzer Probe HANTEK 2G DDR2 | eBay
Cheap, usb powered module: New USB Logic 100MHz 16Ch saleae16 Logic16 Logic Analyzer for ARM FPGA | eBay
This is for DIY work, nothing fancy, but I still don’t want to damage my work laptop…
Thanks, any suggestion welcome
SB
I’m open to suggestion and would like to hear from other members that have more knowledge than me of the current market offering.
Seems there is a lot more unexpensive options these days than 20 years ago.
For example, just a few examples:
LA2016: New LA2016 USB Logic Analyzer 200M MAX Sample Rate 16Channels 2M PWM | eBay
Hantek, more serious 32ch module, but also more expensive: 32CH 150MHz 400MSa/s Digital Multimeter Logic Bus Analyzer Probe HANTEK 2G DDR2 | eBay
Cheap, usb powered module: New USB Logic 100MHz 16Ch saleae16 Logic16 Logic Analyzer for ARM FPGA | eBay
This is for DIY work, nothing fancy, but I still don’t want to damage my work laptop…
Thanks, any suggestion welcome
SB
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70% of the value in a logic analyzer comes from the software designed to work with the logic interface hardware.
- The Saleae16 device in the EBay store is a cheap chinese clone, no idea how good it is and if it works properly with the original Saleae software (which is excellent).
- The Hantek device is very good, but IMO not worth the money.
- You are safe with the King LA2016, I have one too, for quick look-ups, the software is also good-ish and they release periodic bug fixes, updates, etc...
A 200MHz sampling rate means you are going to see glitches up to 10nSec but realistically you could rely on it at 50MHz clock frequencies. Right on spot for digital audio, but hardly for more than that. Don't hope you could debug a DSP or a fast FPGA with it.
- The Saleae16 device in the EBay store is a cheap chinese clone, no idea how good it is and if it works properly with the original Saleae software (which is excellent).
- The Hantek device is very good, but IMO not worth the money.
- You are safe with the King LA2016, I have one too, for quick look-ups, the software is also good-ish and they release periodic bug fixes, updates, etc...
A 200MHz sampling rate means you are going to see glitches up to 10nSec but realistically you could rely on it at 50MHz clock frequencies. Right on spot for digital audio, but hardly for more than that. Don't hope you could debug a DSP or a fast FPGA with it.
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