A frequent contributor to the hacker community, [stacksmashing] has prepared an excellent instructional video on reverse engineering Apple’s Lighting connector proprietary protocol. The video begins ...

You’ve been there many times, trying to use a scope to simultaneously look at many signals on a digital bus. Scopes are great for viewing a signal’s details, but most can handle just two or four ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

With mixed-signal oscilloscopes (MSOs) being everyone’s “Engineering” Swiss Army knife, why would anyone need an additional logic analyzer? MSOs with sampling rates in the GHz range and 8 or more ...

Logic analyzers, long a mainstay of chip design, are finding new demand for IoT devices—and frequently in different forms than in the past. Once associated with big, bulky benchtop instruments, this ...

For designers of telecommunications and wireless products, the challenge is to choose an appropriate mix of instruments for analysis and debug, and the move is to logic and protocol analyzers.