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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: canada13records on October 15, 2016, 08:41:33 pm
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At work I have 2 Beagles and an Aardvark from Total Phase. I love these things, as they just work and the software is simple to use. However, for me to get setup with a Beagle and Aardvark at home I'm looking at $630. I would really like to spend maybe half of that, or maybe even $100.
I am doing some contract work that requires me to control a ton of SPI digital potentiometers, and a memory device. I will likely end up taking on some more jobs, but feel that I only really need a Beagle and an Aardvark.
What I really like about the beagle is that i can have it sit there and sniff I2C for days on end and then export my data.
I love that the aardvark works with nearly any memory device and can easily read/write/erase memory devices with ease. I can feed it hex, ascii, and binary files to burn into eproms, flash memory, or even interact with my projects to help me manipulate the devices I am working with - before I write code.
I see members here all raving and ranting about the Saleae units, but I don't really get a good feel for how they work on their site. Can you act as a I2C or SPI host? Does it know how to interact with nearly every memory device out there? I love how the total phase devices do this.
Thanks!