innomaker LA5016 USB Logic Analyzer 16Channels 500M Max Sample Rate 10GB Samples MCU/ARM/FPGA Debug Tool English Software Support Windows (32bit/64bit),Mac OS,Linux

I can only write this as a home hobbyist who dabbles in electronics. I have a Siglent scope and the logic probe attachment is like 400 bucks, so I figured we'll give this one (the la1010) a shot. I downloaded the latest version of the software, it installed no problem (on windows 10) and grabbed a circuit that I had made with some shift registers and hooked up 3 probes and immediately captured some data.My really only complaint is that the grabbers aren't numbered, and the colors don't match the wires for the connectors, so I could see tracking more than 6 or 7 signals could be problematic. I think I'll probably burn in or use a sharpie to write some numbers on them.Update: I built a quick counter circuit using a 74LS393 and a 555 timer, and this worked flawlessly. See the attached screenshot.

Let's start with everything great about this device. It's got a great price, and it's got software and a manual that have clearly been translated by someone who actually speaks English fluently. None of those typical Chinesium translation mistakes, which shows that they actually cared and spent the money to do this right.I'm just decoding UART signals, so I wired this up and had it working in a matter of 10 minutes, and that includes the time I spent looking through the manual to figure out the basics, then a little deeper in to figure out UART decoding and trigger settings. Wow, this took me WAY longer to set up on my oscilloscope. See the included image.Now for the negatives. It feels old. A USB-B port? That's so 2009. A CD included in the box? I haven't had an optical drive in my computer for like 5 years. Um... that's it. That's all the negatives. Even the USB-A to USB-B cable is really high quality because of how flexible it is.What a great device!

This logic analyzer is pretty good. It has programmable threshold voltage (Vth). However, I found a bug and a work-around. When PC goes to sleep and wakes up, it appears this Vth setting is lost - it appears to be 0 even though the GUI shows the old setting. This causes some random triggers and the logic analyzer captures some random data that is non-existent. The error is repeatable, i.e. just let your PC go to sleep, wake it up and start capturing.Work-around:Set a new Vth very close to the original value. For example, if orig Vth = 0.6V, set a new one to 0.61V.If you're using pre-set Vth for certain logic, my guess is set to a new one, then set to old one.The good stuff:1. Easy to set up.2. GUI seems easy to use.3. User Guide has very good English, surprising for a Chinese product. No typos or wrong grammar.4. Lots of protocols supported. I only have tested USB PD so far.5. Very good price and very good quality.6. Extra connectors are provided.

Software installed and device connected to my computer with no fuss. The results seem pretty accurate - microsecond pulses from my Arduino are clearly captured and accurately measured. I haven’t tried all of the advanced features of the software yet, but it seems pretty polished.I will note that I foolishly assumed that the red dots on the front of the device were LEDs which would light up to show the logic level. This is *not* true, which was slightly disappointing, but my own fault for not reading more clearly.

Okay, so this little tool is not a $10,000 logic analyzer, but I'm also not working on a multi-million dollar project. I'm just a guy who needs something that I can use to analyze a mid-speed digital circuit. 200 MHz. is plenty of speed to detect things that run at the speeds one would normally find on a microprocessor GPIO circuit.I bought this (LA2016) model because the lower priced model has known and stated limitations and the more expensive one is too much capability. My ego would have bought the faster model, but my wife rules. 8-)I bought this tool with a set of special clips that are designed to be used with surface mounted devices that have their pins very close together. The clips that come with this tool are too large to hang onto pins for most SM devices. If you're not doing SMD, then the clips are just fine.This is a logic analyzer. It samples and tracks up to 16 different signals and uses a reference voltage to determine "1" or "0". Sometimes I use 3.3 volt logic, sometimes 5 volt and sometimes another voltage. As I use this thing, I will discover the quirks, but for now, it tells me exactly what I need to know.If you need more than 16 lines, I suspect that there's a method to synchronize two of these together so that their sampling clocks are identical. I'm not sure how to deal with the software so that it also can display all 32 signals. that would be a project left tot he student.I recommend this logic analyzer as a perfect tool for the technician who is doing small to medium sized projects, prototyping and hobby stuff. For the price, it's a very good tool.