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Yesterday I used the Cleverscope to debug the serial device programmer feature for one of our designs. The Cleverscope's large frame store, in conjunction with the tracking graph feature, made the task much easier than it has been in the past. I have other oscilloscopes and logic analyzers, both PC-based and standalone, and have always found them marginal for serial protocols like JTAG, SPI, I2C, etc. With the Cleverscope, you can capture an entire transaction sequence lasting the better part of a second, then zoom in and view any part of it at sub-microsecond resolution. Many PC-based scopes don't have enough memory to do that. And unlike logic analyzers, you can see the critical analog details such as the turnaround points for bidirectional lines.