I'd go to a 16500C. Handy do-everything analyser mainframe, which can
have a scope and a pattern generator (mine has it all) integrated. Modular
and most parts are WAY CHEAP.
Of course you can go one step higher and get the 17500.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Seefried" <seefriek at gmail.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 11:53 PM
Subject: OT: Looking for the Tek 465 of Logic Analysers
Maybe only semi-OT. I'm working on a couple of
classiccmp-ish projects
(6303, 6309 and 68030) and I find the trusty old Tek 465 o-scope is no
longer compensating for my lack of design skill (or I'm getting better at
hiding bugs in my designs, depending how you look at it). I'm looking for
a recommendation for a logic analyzer. Considering my very modest design
constraints, I'm thinking:
- Suitable for 50MHz designs (really more like <16MHz, but you never know)
- 32 channels would be nice, ~128 probably perfect, less...you know...do
what you gotta do...
- No weird technologies in the design (all TTL/CMOS logic)
- I'm willing to spend a few $$ to get decent kit, but need to spend
closer
to 465 money than TLA7012 money
- Decent analytics, hopefully more than "here's your traces...good luck"
- Ease of finding complete kit; nothing worse than dropping a dime on what
looks like a good deal only to find you're missing the unobtanium cable,
or
the software disk that the vendor will be more than happy to provide you
only under a cripplingly expensive support contract.
A brief cruse of ePay didn't turn up much Tek/HP/Agilent older-generation
kit that looked like it fit the budget, but I'm not entirely sure I know
what I'm looking at. I know there's a general allergy to anything USB
around here, and worse Windows-based USB software, but there is tons of
USB-based stuff that looked like a possibility for those who are willing
to
hold their nose.
So have the USB logic analyzers achieved Willem levels of usefulness
(which
one?), or is there a must-have Tek 465 moral equivalent I need to be
looking for?
KJ