When developing or researching many electronic devices, electronics hobbyists frequently need to measure various signal parameters (voltage, frequency, timing, etc.) or view and record inputs and outputs, in order to analyze them and determine if the electronic circuit is operating correctly.
To gather measurement data to analyze digital-to-analog circuits, it’s helpful to use some specific electrical testing equipment, which include an oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, recorder, and logical analyzer/generator.
As you’ll see HobbyLab has a great tool for your microcontroller projects called the ‘PC USB Oscilloscope’. Simply connect the device to the computer USB port, run the Windows application and you can analyze the UART, SPI, I2C and 1-Wire interface signals.
The USB o’scope provides the following operation modes:
- 2-channel oscilloscope
- 2-channel spectrum analyzer
- 2-channel recorder
- 16 (8)-channel logic analyzer
- 8-channel logic generator
For more information on the product technical details or to purchase one, here’s the product page, the cost is only US$169 which is pretty good considering what a true o’scope would cost!
If you’d like to check out the online documentation with many more screenshots, go to the HobbyLab wiki.
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