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Why doesn't modern LA-gui have cursor info?

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nctnico:

--- Quote from: Electro Fan on June 15, 2024, 05:02:57 pm ---https://www.pctestinstruments.com/index.asp

some cursors but maybe not the functionality you are looking for

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That device is horribly outdated when it came onto the market about 20 years ago. It has like 1k or 2k points per channel. That is useless for any serious logic analyser work.

RAPo:
Yeah, certainly, if you compare it to the devices I have.
I've sent a mail to Dreamsourcelab to see if they can implement it in the next version of DSView.


--- Quote from: nctnico on June 16, 2024, 10:15:04 am ---
--- Quote from: Electro Fan on June 15, 2024, 05:02:57 pm ---https://www.pctestinstruments.com/index.asp

some cursors but maybe not the functionality you are looking for

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That device is horribly outdated when it came onto the market about 20 years ago. It has like 1k or 2k points per channel. That is useless for any serious logic analyser work.

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TomKatt:
Is what this discussion referring to the equivalent to a parallel decoder?  I have never tried, but I thought DSview or Sigrok did that?

If not, it should be possible to either create a custom decoder, or worst case modify the source code to provide whatever functionality you desire - isn’t the code open source on GitHub?

RAPo:
Well thats one of the suggestions that I'm investigating.
Thinking more about it:
a) the ability to choose one exact point in the time frame
b) update the channel setting with its state at that moment, just after the channel label
c) calculator cursor value(s) based on groupselecting and then put out the value in the format you want (hex,octal,binary)
and an additional wish: skip to the next frame where the cursor value is different from the selected value.

a) should be easy
b) should require some changes to the screen painting
c) possibly by adding a decoder
d) is extra functionality.



--- Quote from: TomKatt on June 16, 2024, 01:33:36 pm ---Is what this discussion referring to the equivalent to a parallel decoder?  I have never tried, but I thought DSview or Sigrok did that?

If not, it should be possible to either create a custom decoder, or worst case modify the source code to provide whatever functionality you desire - isn’t the code open source on GitHub?

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RAPo:
I tried the Pararell decoder in Pulseview.
It somewhat does the summing I described, but I cannot select a point in time to see the states at that point.
It is very slow for a lot of channels and long signals.
Didn't have time to look into the source code of sigrok/preview.

Thanks again for your suggestions.

--- Quote from: artag on June 15, 2024, 11:33:42 am ---Probably because the number of channels on a traditional LA is so large that laying it out like the Tek screen would be unweildy beyond a very small number of signals. Even on the Tek display it seems to only be showing a subset..

I haven't tried this but you might explore on your favourite tool :

Typically, serial busses can be analysed on-display and show a separate trace (more like an eye diagram than an oscilloscope trace) that places the byte value numerically on the trace.

If you can group several signals together and have them displayed as a parallel bus in the same way, you will probably get instantaneous bus values shown, perhaps only where the cursor is placed to avoid overfilling the display. You might be able to set up a single bit bus to do what you want.

I'm not sure if this feature actually exists, it's kind of a mishmash of expectations and partial features. But it ought to :). And for Pulseview at least, anybody could add it, because it's open software.

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