sigrok-cli

libsigrokdecode now supports the spdif decoder. The Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format (S/PDIF) is a (nowadays standardized in IEC 60958) digital audio protocol that is used in various devices and supported by a number of ICs, such as the TI ... [More] PCM2707 and many others. A short description of the protocol is available on the respective wiki page, along with pointers to further reading. Thanks a lot to Guenther Wenninger for contributing the decoder! [Less]

libsigrokdecode now supports the spdif decoder. The Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format (S/PDIF) is a (nowadays standardized in IEC 60958) digital audio protocol that is used in various devices and supported by a number of ICs, such as the TI ... [More] PCM2707 and many others. A short description of the protocol is available on the respective wiki page, along with pointers to further reading. Thanks a lot to Guenther Wenninger for contributing the decoder! [Less]

We're happy to announce even more hardware support in libsigrok. It now supports the Yokogawa DLM2000 series oscilloscopes / mixed-signal scopes. Thanks a lot to Soeren Apel for writing the code and testing on a Yokogawa DLM2054! We're especially ... [More] happy about this new driver since it's the first Yokogawa device at all that we now support. The DLM2000 series features 2 or 4 analog channels, and the 4-channel models can alternatively capture 3 analog channels + 8 digital ones. The scopes sample at 2.5GSa/s and feature a bandwidth of 200MHz-500MHz (depending on the model) and up to 250 Mpoints of memory. The DLM2000 devices seem to specifically target various industrial uses and include some interesting analysis/reporting features like a "history search" and "replay" function, enhanced trigger facilities, Go / No-Go functions, a power-supply analysis feature, and more. While the device can do some simple decoding of certain digital protocols such as SPI (apparently those are optional add-ons to buy), you can of course widely broaden the range of protocols by using the sigrok protocol decoders on the PC side. The devices can be connected to a PC via either USB (USBTMC protocol), Ethernet (LXI), or GPIB. The protocol itself is SCPI-based, have a look at the source code if you're interested in this kind of stuff. It might be possible to support the DLM4000 series with some minor updates of the driver at some point, probably even others. Patches and testers for that are highly welcome, if you own such a device please let us know!       [Less]

We're happy to announce even more hardware support in libsigrok. It now supports the Yokogawa DLM2000 series oscilloscopes / mixed-signal scopes. Thanks a lot to Soeren Apel for writing the code and testing on a Yokogawa DLM2054! We're especially ... [More] happy about this new driver since it's the first Yokogawa device at all that we now support. The DLM2000 series features 2 or 4 analog channels, and the 4-channel models can alternatively capture 3 analog channels + 8 digital ones. The scopes sample at 2.5GSa/s and feature a bandwidth of 200MHz-500MHz (depending on the model) and up to 250 Mpoints of memory. The DLM2000 devices seem to specifically target various industrial uses and include some interesting analysis/reporting features like a "history search" and "replay" function, enhanced trigger facilities, Go / No-Go functions, a power-supply analysis feature, and more. While the device can do some simple decoding of certain digital protocols such as SPI (apparently those are optional add-ons to buy), you can of course widely broaden the range of protocols by using the sigrok protocol decoders on the PC side. The devices can be connected to a PC via either USB (USBTMC protocol), Ethernet (LXI), or GPIB. The protocol itself is SCPI-based, have a look at the source code if you're interested in this kind of stuff. It might be possible to support the DLM4000 series with some minor updates of the driver at some point, probably even others. Patches and testers for that are highly welcome, if you own such a device please let us know!       [Less]

The venerable Openbench Logic Sniffer has long been a popular logic analyzer: it's cheap, capable and entirely open source. Unfortunately the project was abandoned long ago, so no new features were ever added. The one major problem with the OLS was ... [More] always its limited available memory: it has no memory chip on the board, using only the small amount of memory available on the FPGA to store samples. Its slow, PIC-based USB interface made it impossible to use a streaming architecture, like the fx2lafw devices. Enter the Saanlima Pipistrello: an inexpensive but very capable FPGA development board. It has a newer Spartan-6 FPGA, 16MiB flash, 64MiB DRAM and an FTDI-based USB interface. It also comes with lots of ports: HDMI, audio, Micro-SD, PMOD, and 48 GPIO pins in a Papilio Wing configuration. The board is completely open source: schematics and Eagle design files are available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. The board itself sells for $155 at the Saanlima Store. A buffer wing is also available. This protects the FPGA with 5V-tolerant transceivers. Highly recommended: I destroyed many unbuffered pins on my OLS board long ago. The original OLS verilog code couldn't use DRAM for storage, so the Saanlima folks adapted it. Proper edge triggers were also added to the FPGA code, something that was cumbersome on the OLS. They also contributed a sigrok driver, which has been merged into libsigrok. Thanks, Magnus! [Less]

The venerable Openbench Logic Sniffer has long been a popular logic analyzer: it's cheap, capable and entirely open source. Unfortunately the project was abandoned long ago, so no new features were ever added. The one major problem with the OLS was ... [More] always its limited available memory: it has no memory chip on the board, using only the small amount of memory available on the FPGA to store samples. Its slow, PIC-based USB interface made it impossible to use a streaming architecture, like the fx2lafw devices. Enter the Saanlima Pipistrello: an inexpensive but very capable FPGA development board. It has a newer Spartan-6 FPGA, 16MiB flash, 64MiB DRAM and an FTDI-based USB interface. It also comes with lots of ports: HDMI, audio, Micro-SD, PMOD, and 48 GPIO pins in a Papilio Wing configuration. The board is completely open source: schematics and Eagle design files are available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. The board itself sells for $155 at the Saanlime Store. A buffer wing is also available. This protects the FPGA with 5V-tolerant transceivers. Highly recommended: I destroyed many unbuffered pins on my OLS board long ago. The original OLS verilog code couldn't use DRAM for storage, so the Saanlima folks adapted it. Proper edge triggers were also added to the FPGA code, something that was cumbersome on the OLS. They also contributed a sigrok driver, which has been merged into libsigrok. Thanks, Magnus! [Less]

The venerable Openbench Logic Sniffer has long been a popular logic analyzer: it's cheap, capable and entirely open source. Unfortunately the project was abandoned long ago, so no new features were ever added. The one major problem with the OLS was ... [More] always its limited available memory: it has no memory chip on the board, using only the small amount of memory available on the FPGA to store samples. Its slow, PIC-based USB interface made it impossible to use a streaming architecture, like the fx2lafw devices. Enter the Saanlima Pipistrello: an inexpensive but very capable FPGA development board. It has a newer Spartan-6 FPGA, 16MiB flash, 64MiB DRAM and an FTDI-based USB interface. It also comes with lots of ports: HDMI, audio, Micro-SD, PMOD, and 48 GPIO pins in a Papilio Wing configuration. The board is completely open source: schematics and Eagle design files are available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. The board itself sells for $155 at the Saanlima Store. A buffer wing is also available. This protects the FPGA with 5V-tolerant transceivers. Highly recommended: I destroyed many unbuffered pins on my OLS board long ago. The original OLS verilog code couldn't use DRAM for storage, so the Saanlima folks adapted it. Proper edge triggers were also added to the FPGA code, something that was cumbersome on the OLS. They also contributed a sigrok driver, which has been merged into libsigrok. Thanks, Magnus! [Less]

libsigrokdecode has gained support for a new protocol decoder recently, the nrf24l01 PD. Thanks a lot to Jens Steinhauser for contributing the decoder, as well as a bunch of test files that we're using for some automated decoder tests (and that you ... [More] can use to easily try out the decoder as well). This decoder stacks on top of the SPI PD, decoding some higher-level commands used by the Nordic Semiconductor nRF24L01(+) 2.4GHz RF transceiver ICs. A short description of the chip and its protocol and pins is available on the respective wiki page, along with pointers to further reading. [Less]

libsigrokdecode has gained support for a new protocol decoder recently, the nrf24l01 PD. Thanks a lot to Jens Steinhauser for contributing the decoder, as well as a bunch of test files that we're using for some automated decoder tests (and that you ... [More] can use to easily try out the decoder as well). This decoder stacks on top of the SPI PD, decoding some higher-level commands used by the Nordic Semiconductor nRF24L01(+) 2.4GHz RF transceiver ICs. A short description of the chip and its protocol and pins is available on the respective wiki page, along with pointers to further reading. [Less]

libsigrokdecode has gained support for a new protocol decoder recently, the nrf24l01 PD. Thanks a lot to Jens Steinhauser for contributing the decoder, as well as a bunch of test files that we're using for some automated decoder tests (and that you ... [More] can use to easily try out the decoder as well). This decoder stacks on top of the SPI PD, decoding some higher-level commands used by the Nordic Semiconductor nRF24L01(+) 2.4GHz RF transceiver ICs. A short description of the chip and its protocol and pins is available on the respective wiki page, along with pointers to further reading. [Less]