Advantages of Logic Analyzer | disadvantages of Logic Analyzer
This page covers advantages and disadvantages of Logic Analyzer. It mentions Logic Analyzer advantages or benefits and Logic Analyzer disadvantages or drawbacks.
Introduction:
Logic analyzer is used for multiple channel or signal measurements simultaneously.
It captures the signals and displays them simultaneously on the screen from
digital system/circuit. It possesses advanced triggering features and hence it is handy tool for
measuring timing relationships between signals in digital system. It requires hardware and software in order to
perform measurements as shown in the figure-1.
It uses dedicated dedicated bus and protocol analysis functionality. This helps logic analyzers to perform analysis on different bus protocols such as UART, SPI, I2C, SSI etc. It uses USB 2.0 high speed interface with PnP (Plug and Play) support.
Benefits or advantages of Logic Analyzer
Following are the benefits or advantages of Logic Analyzer:
➨It supports measurements of multiple channels commonly
not supported by oscilloscope. This is very useful in debugging microprocessor or
microcontroller based boards.
Normally logic analyzer supports 16 or more channels.
Advanced logic analyzers even support 300 channels.
➨High performance
➨Lower costs
➨Easy to carry
➨Convenient to use
➨Extendibility
Drawbacks or disadvantages of Logic Analyzer
Following are the disadvantages of Logic Analyzer:
➨It does not focus on analog characteristics of the signal and their specific values.
Hence it is not suited for such analog measurements unlike oscilloscope. Logic analyzer is used for
digital measurements.
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