Originally Posted By: mlord
There's now another highly-rated USB logic analyzer on the market: http://www.saleae.com/logic

They sell an 8-bit model for $150 (EZ-Hook clips included), and a 16-bit model for double that. The support software appears to be all open source and has GUIs for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Extensible, too.


The 8 bit one has been out for almost a couple of years now; the developer hangs around the hacker dojo occasionally. It's pretty slick, but is one of those things where if you can't sustain the data rate to the PC, it stops. There's zero buffering or triggering in the device itself, the PC is the one looking for the trigger event.

OTOH, you can save the data out as CSV and post-process it with some python, which is what I did to add some new protocol decodes. Very useful!