Practical Electronics/Test Equipments/Logic Analyzer
Logic analyzer
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A logic analyzer is, in effect, a specialised oscilloscope. It is a measurement tool or device used to analyze multiple digital channels over multiple channels 8, 16, 32 or greater number of input channels and displays the timing in various format for further analysis of the embedded system.
The key difference between an analyzer and an oscilloscope is that the analyzer can only display a digital (on/off) waveform, whereas an oscilloscope can display any voltage (depending on the type of probe connected). The other difference is that logic analyzers tend to have many more signal inputs than oscilloscopes - usually 32 or 64, versus the two channels most oscilloscopes provide. Logic analyzers can be very useful for debugging complex logic circuits, where one signal's state may be affected by many other signals.