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PICkit Serial Analyzer

It appears that Microchip will be making the PICkit Serial Analyzer available after May 8th, at a list cost of US$49.99 (with demo board). It’ll read and write I2C, SMBus, SPI, and USART.

I may have to acquire one of these instead of a much larger scale logic analyzer.

UPDATE: Gur, I’m dumb. I just read the docs and realized that it’s not a analyzer, more a USB tool which will communicate as I2C, SMBus, SPI, and USART. I can’t use it for sniffing / capture.

8 Responses

  1. icis_machine April 19, 2007

    you need an oscilloscope. it will do it all.

    this is just a bit twiddler.

    1. c0nsumer April 19, 2007

      Ha, I’m not that bright. :P

      Unless you’re talking about a really shiny DSO. I’ve got an analog scope here, but it doesn’t store / decode anything.

      What I really need is a logic analyzer like the USBee or its offshoot the BSLA.

      1. icis_machine April 19, 2007

        i personally have admired the USBee for quite some time. i really wanted a AX but that DX is looking pretty good.

        however, i think circuit cellar had an article on making one. something to consider.

        1. c0nsumer April 19, 2007

          Yeah. That looks really nice. And there’s a good chance that it’s just software differences between the two. And everyone knows that software costs nothing and should be free.

          ;)

          I’ll try and dig up that article… Maybe we could get a couple people together and get some boards made for them.

        2. c0nsumer April 19, 2007

          Yeah. That looks really nice. And there’s a good chance that it’s just software differences between the two. And everyone knows that software costs nothing and should be free.

          ;)

          I’ll try and dig up that article… Maybe we could get a couple people together and get some boards made for them.

      2. icis_machine April 19, 2007

        i personally have admired the USBee for quite some time. i really wanted a AX but that DX is looking pretty good.

        however, i think circuit cellar had an article on making one. something to consider.

    2. c0nsumer April 19, 2007

      Ha, I’m not that bright. :P

      Unless you’re talking about a really shiny DSO. I’ve got an analog scope here, but it doesn’t store / decode anything.

      What I really need is a logic analyzer like the USBee or its offshoot the BSLA.

  2. icis_machine April 19, 2007

    you need an oscilloscope. it will do it all.

    this is just a bit twiddler.

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