Sometimes I see surveys about certain aspects of the different features offered by the Digilent Equipment. I notice that most of them focus on all analog capabilities. Of course important, but one of the instruments I personally value most is the Logic Analyzer.
For the Logic Analyzer I would like to suggest to enhance the trigger capabilities. Currently these are quite limited. What I am really missing are combinations of events leading to a trigger. What I am thinking of are trigger capabilities like:
Signal A is high for a certain amount of time followed by a specific edge on signal B.
Signal A occurs n times followed by a specific value on a bus.
...
I think certain conditions can be created using the ROM logic in the pattern generator but to my knowledge using this feature will not allow to also use time or counting as part of the conditional triggering.
As an example of advanced triggering capabilities, below I share the setup dialog of a competing logic analyzer which offers these advanced trigger capabilities. This dialog is quite self explanatory. Two trigger events can be defined where relations between these events can be setup to lead to the 'final' trigger.
Adding more advanced trigger capabilities would make the Logic Analyzer much more usable for me and I am curious what other users and the Digilent development team think of this.
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Sometimes I see surveys about certain aspects of the different features offered by the Digilent Equipment. I notice that most of them focus on all analog capabilities. Of course important, but one of the instruments I personally value most is the Logic Analyzer.
For the Logic Analyzer I would like to suggest to enhance the trigger capabilities. Currently these are quite limited. What I am really missing are combinations of events leading to a trigger. What I am thinking of are trigger capabilities like:
I think certain conditions can be created using the ROM logic in the pattern generator but to my knowledge using this feature will not allow to also use time or counting as part of the conditional triggering.
As an example of advanced triggering capabilities, below I share the setup dialog of a competing logic analyzer which offers these advanced trigger capabilities. This dialog is quite self explanatory. Two trigger events can be defined where relations between these events can be setup to lead to the 'final' trigger.
Adding more advanced trigger capabilities would make the Logic Analyzer much more usable for me and I am curious what other users and the Digilent development team think of this.
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