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Re:The Joy of Bit-Banging by jevinskie on Friday September 14, 2012 @01:02PM (#4522656)
I am really tempted to get it. I have a $390 LogicPort [0] which is a 34 channel, 500 MHz probe (quite a bit beefier than the Logic's 8 channel, 24 MHz). The hardware is great but the software is rather terrible. There is no way to add your own protocol decoders. Export features are limited. I wanted to write my own GUI so I contacted the company and asked if they had any documentation on the USB protocol. Their response was snarky and rude. Sad, because I really wanted a Linux version. Maybe reversing the protocol wouldn't be too difficult...

[0]: http://www.pctestinstruments.com/

Re:The Joy of Bit-Banging by bradfa on Friday September 14, 2012 @01:28PM (#4522820)
Sigrok [1] plans to support your LogicPort but doesn't yet. Help them out instead of buying a Saleae.

[1]:http://sigrok.org/wiki/Supported_hardware#Logic_analyzers

Re:The Joy of Bit-Banging by jevinskie on Saturday September 15, 2012 @03:24PM (#4527020)
Thank you for showing me this! I didn't know about the project before. It would be a big motivation if others are working on reversing the protocol as well!