You’re not satisfied with the currently Logic Analyzer and would like to buy a brand new and low cost logic analyzer? OK, there is a great way here, where you can save your money and having a low cost logic analyzer here…

Yep, it’s time to develop a new PicLA logic analyzer, which it’s using an 18F2525 PIC microprocessor and a PC. In this project, the PIC is used as a hardware capture device, where it monitoring the data lines and records all the changes.

The analyzer can be operated in a “Fast Sampling” mode, which the data is being sampled into an internal 1K buffer on the PIC. There is another mode, the “Normal Sampling” or “Continuous Sampling” mode, which all the data changes are offloaded to the PC in real time.

This PicLA logic analyzer allows you to select the sampling in either 4 or 8 channels. Beside that, the 3584 or 7168 samples can be easily stored in “Fast Sampling” mode without any further modification. For the “Normal Sampling” there is no limit to the duration of the trace. The PC link will limit the “average” speed of the logic analyzer.