If you are mainly involved in designing or repairing digital devices, a logic analyzer is more useful than an oscilloscope for tracing signal through circuits. However, does this mean you should rush out and buy a logic analyzer? The instruments from the leading manufacturers are too expensive for home use or startup businesses, and the low-cost alternatives don’t do what you want or have half-baked software. That situation is slowly starting to change.

Ikalogic is proud to announce their new series of Logic analyzers and digital pattern generators called ScanaQuad. With 4 channels that can be configured as digital inputs or outputs and a ±35V input protection, you're ready to take next debug challenges.

Watch this video and learn how this tiny USB Power Delivery Analyzer connects in-line between two USB Type-C products, and passively captures all communication between them, on both the CC1 and CC2 signals.

If you’re an engineer debugging a micro controller project, a hobbyist struggling with an I2C sensor, or an automobile expert trying to analyze CAN bus data frames, ScanaQuad is the product your need.

Made for software engineers with sufficient performance, optimized for use with development boards like Raspberry PI and a user interface that feels familiar for software developers. That's the new SmartScope from Labnation.

A small USB-powered instrument with oscillscope, logic analyzer and signal generator that is connected to the smart phone, tablet, or computer, and costs around 200€.

"We saw the need for three years ago, software developers know what they want to see, but do not know how to use an oscilloscope, says Riemer Grootjans as technology manager at Belgian Labnation."

Data Center Software is now more robust then ever, with increased features supporting the eSPI protocol on the Promira Serial Platform and monitoring for the USB Power Delivery Analyzer.

Intro

Reading EDID data from DVI monitor EEPROM is a common use case for the Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter and DVI DDC Breakout Cable. Although the following describes DVI monitor, similar steps can be used for other DVI devices. The goal of this article is to demonstrate how to read several bytes from DVI monitor EEPROM. 

Total Phase have released the Data Center Software 6.70 for the USB Power Delivery Analyzer. Now engineers will be able to use Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux platforms to analyze the Power Delivery protocol.

The Data Center Software is a comprehensive, free bus monitoring software package that captures and displays data simultaneously in true real-time. Together with the USB Power Delivery Analyzer, it will allow customers to easily reveal all the details of their product’s power, USB and Alternate Mode negotiation sequences.

With the USB Power Delivery Analyzer you can:

• Sniffing Power Delivery traffic on both Control Channel lines (CC1/CC2)
• Transparent interposing on a USB Type-C connection
• Monitoring VBUS and VCONN voltages and currents
• Injecting PD packets on CC1 or CC2 lines
• Putting Rd/Rp/Ra resistors on CC1 and CC2

The USB Power Delivery Analyzer is the first of its kind USB Type-C connector sniffing dongle that is able to act as USB 3.1 Gen 2 data pass through while simultaneously recording traffic on CC1 or CC2. With the open source Sigrok framework users can acquire and decode USB Power Delivery traces.

Now, these traces can be viewed in the open source PulseView tool for Windows.

Total Phase recently published PulseView for Windows - this software is available as a free download from our website. In addition, you may use the PulseView tool for Linux as released through the Chromium project website.

The tiny footprint of this feature packed device makes the Power Delivery Analyzer from Total Phase the ideal solution for your cable or device manufacturing line. Visit our testing suite at the upcoming USB-IF Compliance workshop in Milpitas, California to have our experts test your Type-C solution.