Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: CWAV | Subject: USBee DX
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 1 November 2006

USB test pod hosts powerful debugger

CWAV has added the USBee DX test pod to its product family of PC based test pods that verify analogue voltage levels and digital logic used in electronics

The DX builds on CWAV's award-winning USBee AX Pro Test Pod and offers two analogue and 16 digital channels, click and drag instant decode of embedded bus transactions (including I2C, SPI, async, CAN, USB low and full speed, I2S, SM-Bus, PS/2 and 1-Wire), digital voltmeter, data logger, digital signal generator, pulsewidth modulator, frequency counter, frequency generator, I2C controller, and pulse counter.

In addition, users are able to create applications to control the DX with the USBee Toolbuilder source code and library.

The DX offers engineers, students and home hobbyists a powerful and portable way to test and debug electronic products and designs.

'The DX builds on the AX Pro's success and offers additional features to help engineers test and control electronic circuit designs quicker', says Tim Harvey, Principal of CWAV.

'Decoding the data from many of the common embedded buses eliminates the time consuming task of counting bits and lets users debug their designs instead of reverse engineering bus protocols'.

The DX is a compact device (57 x 38 x 19mm) that attaches to a PC using a USB cable.

Depending on the PC application used, the DX becomes a collection of various electronics test tools.

The oscilloscope/logic analyser has two analogue and 16 digital signals sampling 100 million plus samples at up to 24Msample/s and dual 8bit ADCs for the +/-10V inputs.

Users can also click-and-drag to instantly decode embedded bus transactions (I2C, SPI, async, CAN, USB low and full speed, I2S, SM Bus, 1-Wire and PS/2).

Additionally, the DX includes a two-channel, +/-10V digital voltmeter, 16 digital and two analogue channel data logger, 16 channel digital signal generator, 16 channel pulsewidth modulator, 16 channel frequency counter, frequency generator that generates sets of common frequencies, I2C controller to control I2C devices using simple text scripts, remote controller to easily control your hardware using a PC, 16 channel pulse counter with gating control, and USBee Toolbuilder source code and library to create your own test tools.

The USBee DX Test Pod is priced at US $1495.00 and comes standard with all necessary cables, clips, leads, software, and accessories.

The DX is compatible with USBee Data Extractor, CWAV's new software bundle for streaming and unlimited capture of USB, CAN, sync, SPI, I2C, I2S, SM Bus, 1-Wire, parallel, serial and PS/2 bus traffic.

The Data Extractor bundle is US $1995.00.

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