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For about the same price ($13), I'm happy with this logic analyzer I bought through amazon[1] a month ago. I spent more on probes[2] ($24) than I did the analyzer. ;-)

To power it, I'm using SigRock/Pulseview[3], which sees it as a compatible clone. It's wild to be able to see signals a few tens of nanoseconds wide so cheaply.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077LSG5P2

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLB63GL3

[3] https://sigrok.org/wiki/PulseView

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I have this exact one, and I don't reccomend using it with the Saleae Logic software, it constantly drops out and has issues enumerating. Haven't tried sigrock yet.

> I don't reccomend using it with the Saleae Logic software

The Saleae software is designed for use only with Saleae products. Anything else is a clone.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they intentionally made the software frustrating and buggy to use with clones. The software (which is great) is funded by hardware purchases.

I too have the same one, and had endless problems till I switched to a shorter USB cable and suddenly everything was fine.

I think the firmware might have some timing issue with the USB bus, and just a few extra nanoseconds of a 2 foot long cable seems to break it.

Thanks, all of the mini usb cables I've tried are fairly long (~1m). I'll try and find a short one and see if it fixes it.

Yeah, those are awesome. I found that a great use was to profile microcontroller code. Setting various GPIO pins high / low around critical sections of code. Then you can see the results in SigRock.

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