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Re: Saleae, an SF hardware startup brings crafted logic analyzers

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Post by dgarrett » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 8:17 PM UTC

masto wrote: post #6

I bought the Logic 16 a couple of years ago and it's a neat piece of hardware, but the software is really basic and stagnant. I'm jealous of the triggering and overall UI something like Oscium provides ( http://vimeo.com/42342243 ) and I keep hoping this will come in a future software upgrade.

Check out the new software coming with the new products. It looks like it's all compatible with the previous generation Logics.

According to the Downloads page[0], the software update is coming May 31st.

[0] https://www.saleae.com/downloads

Re: Saleae, an SF hardware startup brings crafted logic analyzers

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Post by saleaenate » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 8:57 PM UTC

dgarrett wrote: post #10

Huh, Saleae used to have a nice ~50% student discount. Does anyone know what happened to that? I'd be very interested in using this for some projects.

hey dgarrett this is nate from saleae. we offered 33% student discounts and which we've put on hold for the preorders. the discount was intended to drop the price on Logic >$100 to make it more affordable for students.

that being said, we've added a $99 product with the student community in mind. we will most likely resume the student discount program after launch when preorders are shipped.

Re: Saleae, an SF hardware startup brings crafted logic analyzers

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Post by jpwright » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 9:48 PM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #5

Sigh. I really like the concept, I really dislike the lock-in. I think what I want is the unholy love-child of Saleae and Dangerous Prototypes[1]. I've got the original version of DP's Logic Sniffer [2] and built a really nice USB 2.0 protocol analyzer with it. The combination of open source, inexpensive hardware, and awesome documentation let me take it in a direction that no one else had. Salea on the other hand ha…

Saleae has cross-platform software. I have a Logic and use it on my Ubuntu workstation with no problems.

Re: Saleae, an SF hardware startup brings crafted logic analyzers

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Post by ChuckMcM » Tue, Apr 08, 2014, 3:20 AM UTC

Marcus10110 wrote: post #7

ChuckMcM wrote: post #5

Sigh. I really like the concept, I really dislike the lock-in. I think what I want is the unholy love-child of Saleae and Dangerous Prototypes[1]. I've got the original version of DP's Logic Sniffer [2] and built a really nice USB 2.0 protocol analyzer with it. The combination of open source, inexpensive hardware, and awesome documentation let me take it in a direction that no one else had. Salea on the other hand ha…

The good news is that we have cross platform software & and APIs for using the device without our software and writing your own analyzer plugins. These products won't sample fast enough for decoding USB 2.0 high speed, but we do support low speed and full speed with the existing products and the new stuff. -Mark (Saleae)

That is good news, I downloaded it to have a look. A couple of suggestions.

First, try to use Linux friendly names in your directories, that means no spaces, no special characters. While its possible to navigate to

   Logic\ 1.1.18\ \(64-bit\)

It really is a pain for shell users. May I suggest logic_1.1.18_amd64/ which not only communicates its the 1.1.18 version but also tells you it for the 64 bit x86 architecture. the 32 bit version could be x86.

Second the text files you include would ideally have newlines (\n) every 80 or so characters rather than the one long line ending with an ^M which is popular in Windows text tools.

The SDK could use man pages for Linux users, but I appreciate that the API is pretty simple, PIO or stream, but I'm a bit unclear if there is device support for triggering? Or is that something the software is expected to do?