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Digital Storage Logic Probe

It Interfaces to a Win98 PC to give you more flexibility than you ever thought possible.

By Trent Jackson and Ross Tester

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Looking at the rear of the case, showing the 26-way IDE cable which connects to your PC's parallel port. You will probably have to make this cable yourself.
If you have ever needed to design, service or troubleshoot digital equipment, you'll know just how valuable a logic probe can be.

Well, this one goes one step further: connect it to your PC's parallel port running Win98 and you can not only view logic states, you can record them, save them for more analysis or comparison, print them and more.

You can also locate and store high or low-going pulses via software latching and even disable unwanted logic highs or lows (via software). Unlike most conventional DSOs (Digital Storage Oscilloscopes) and similar devices, this device records true bit values - 0s and 1s - not waveforms or voltages.

You can switch between TTL and CMOS circuitry. In TTL circuits, which always operate from a 5V supply, any voltage less than 0.8V is considered to be a logic "low" and any voltage greater than 2.0V is considered to be a logic "high". Intermediate voltages are not valid.

Features:

  • Full optical isolation from parallel port
  • Fully TTL & CMOS compatible
  • Probe over-voltage protection
  • VCC reverse-polarity protection
  • Low cost and very easy to build
  • 32-bit Windows 98 based
  • View and record logic levels
  • Save and open recorded data
  • Print out recorded data
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