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#Active-Pro #Debugger #Review

Welcome to a new Voltlog and it’s not just a click bait title, I was truly impressed by the level of debug capability this little tool has, I think there is no other like it on the market as far as I know. You’ll have to stick around with me in this video to learn about the full capabilities of this tool but just to give you an idea of what this tool can do: it allows you to capture and analyze on the same interface analog inputs, digital inputs, digital outputs in a logic analyzer style that you are used to, but on top of that it ads this Active Debug interface, which you can integrate into your firmware as a snippet of code which then allows you to output whatever data you want via a standard printf, which goes via a 1 or 2 wire interface to this device and have that captured and analyzed in the provided software.

Through the video I will be showcasing a short demo I put together but I will also be referencing short clips from a webinar that Active Pro put together for their tool so I highly recommend you check out their webinar by hitting the link below. Also if you would like to purchase one of these tools there will be a link and a special discount code provided for my viewers in the description below. Same as always, full disclosure, this tool was sent in for free for the purpose of this review but whatever I discover good or bad will be presented in this video.

Unit comes in this little nice box, it’s pretty compact, and has a USB Type-C port. Inside the box you get a USB Type-C to Type-A cable, a set of very nice silicone wire jumper leads and the compatible mini hooks for probing.

Now for those of you curious about the insides of this device, the website shows that proudly but if you are looking for higher resolution images, I’m gonna open my unit up. The enclosure is 3D printed by the way, but on a high quality Multi Jet Fusion printer and it looks very nice.

The devices we have here are the Cypress cy7c68014, which is a high-speed USB capable microcontroller. You typically find these USB microcontrollers from Cypress on devices which just need a reliable way of interfacing via USB. There is a little bit of flux residue around this guy, which makes me think this is an early prototype which maybe they had to rework.

There is an ICE40UP5 from Lattice. This is a UltraPlus family FPGA with 5280 logic cells. This guy is for sure in charge of the high speed hardware decoding and then packing that data and sending it to the PC via the USB MCU from Cypress.

Then we have another MCU from Cypress the CY8C5888LT, this time it’s a 32 bit PSOC 5, Cortex-M3 with built-in DACs, ADCs and all you can think of. If I would have to guess, this guy is in charge of the actual input/output capture of data. It’s interesting that they have a two MCU solution, one dedicated to USB and another one for the rest of the stuff but it’s understandable because the Cortex-M3 guy only supports a more limited USB Full Speed at 12Mbps while the more specialized USB MCU can handle more throughput up to 53Mbps.