Let's assume that you need to simultaneously look at the inputs and outputs of a 16-bit counter to determine a timing error, but you have only a 2-channel scope – how do you look all of the required ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

Beaverton, Ore.—Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced two new logic analyzers—the TLA7012 portable mainframe and TLA7016 benchtop ...

The floppy disk is a technology that is known only to the youth of today as the inspiration for the Save icon. There’s a lot of retro computing history tied up in these fragile platters, thus ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a hands-on look at a compact logic analyzer, a handwriting calculator app, and sewable electronics. My Lab Bench has been piling up with stuff to check out, and I ...