[Paparazzi-devel] Re: USB Oscilloscope

[Simon Wilks]

Thanks for the tips guys. Just ordered the Saleae analyser from SparkFun :)

--Simon

On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, Dirk-WIllem van Gulik
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>
> On 5 Jan 2011, at 09:49, Simon Wilks wrote:
>
>> One of my TWOGs seems to have a problem with UART1 and though I am
>> pretty sure it is faulty I would like to use a signal tester to verify
>> this. Seeing I am just a very part-time electronics fiddler (though I
>> do love it) I thought it might make sense to pick up an Oscilloscope
>> that won't cost me an arm and a leg.
>
> You may be better of with a simple USB logic analyser. As a serial signal is 
> a bit too transient for an (old) scope.
>
> I find the http://www.saleae.com/logic/ one to work splendidly for things 
> like that.
>
> Though in your case something like a bus pirate 
> (http://www.sparkfun.com/categories/177)  or that logic sniffer further down 
> the page may already be enough.
>
> Dw.
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