Logic Sniffer

Description

I'm talking about this beast

Installation

My udev rules

I added a /dev/OpenLogicSniffer symlink by following this page:

#File /etc/udev/rules.d/77-ols.rules
#Rules for Openbench Logix Snifferslogic. Creates a nice link to the ols
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04d8" ATTRS{idProduct}=="fc92" MODE="0666" SYMLINK+="OpenLogicSniffer"

If you've problems with modem-manager trying to access the device (as seen in /var/log/syslog), you can add the following rule:

ATTRS{idVendor}=="04d8" ATTRS{idProduct}=="fc92" ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1"

Software

I tried this fork: http://www.lxtreme.nl/ols/ which is the official client for this board
and changed a bit the run.sh script to handle it through symlink :

if [ -h $0 ]; then
    DIR=$(dirname "$(readlink $0)")
    cd "$DIR"
    BASEDIR=.
else
    BASEDIR=$(dirname -- "${0}")
fi

• Make sure that the Device is set to "OpenBench Logic Sniffer".
• Click the capture button and type in your OLS port path in the "Analyzer port" field (i.e. /dev/OpenLogicSniffer if you installed it as I did). Leave the other settings at their default value for now and click "Capture".

Usage

See 101 and 102 tutos

• Number scheme inside/outside in SUMP client refers to number scheme printed on PCB
  • Default: inside: pin0 is at opposite of RESET button, on buffered probe header (up to 5V)
• External clock source in SUMP: through the CKI header (see the 4 holes in the middle of the PCB)
• Limits:
  • 5V on buffered probe header / 3.3V on unbuffered wing header
  • 200MHz with 2 groups, no noise filter
  • 1 group: 24K / 2 groups: 12K / 4 groups: 6K
  • RLE (compression): 4 groups only (v2.12) / all (v2.11).
• Trigger before/after ration: samples before/after the trigger
• RLE
  • Problem of never ending if no changes occur
  • Better to ground the unused probes of one group to not loose space recording noise