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

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RAPo:
I've just required a Tek 1241. While playing with it, it just dawned on me that it has cursor info: changing your position in the time frame updates the state {1,0} of each channel, and it sums up all the channels.

I would like to have this on my digital LA software, but none of them (pulseview, DS-view, zeroplus) shows this on their GUI.
Any reason why?

artag:
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.

RAPo:
Thanks for your quick reply. I made a very simple channel grouping in order to show what I'm talking about.
In the modern gui's there isroom for adding state info on each channel, just right of the channel label.
In the top bar, you can provide the sum.

Will look into you're suggestions and yes, each LA-gui should have this ;-)

Electro Fan:
https://www.pctestinstruments.com/index.asp

some cursors but maybe not the functionality you are looking for

RAPo:
Thanks, its a step in the right direction, but to fork out another $400 is a bit much.

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