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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Intel Logic Analyzers
Message-ID: <477@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 05:25:17 GMT
References: <303@fenix.Atlanta.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
Lines: 31
Keywords: ditto

In article <303@fenix.Atlanta.NCR.COM> dspoon@fenix.Atlanta.NCR.COM (David B. Witherspoon) writes:
>Has anyone out there had any exposure to Intel's ICE (In-Circuit Emulator)
>package and/or any of there logic analyzers?
>
>We've had HP come in to do a demo for us, but the guys had never seen the
>system they were demonstrating, so we booted 'em out.

We've used HP 64000's here, and we now use Intel I2ICE's with '86 and '186
pods.  We've also got some 8051 ICE's.
Although some people prefer the user interface of the HP64000,
we found that the following Intel features made their system preferable:

	- PC hosted: no need to learn another 'OS', can use favorite
	  PC software for upload/download.
	- No boat, just the boat anchor. (Anchor sits under the table,
	  not on it).
	- Bond-out processor chips, true emulation
	   Our hardware designs are so timing critical that other
	   emulators and analyzers we tried wouldn't work properly,
	   in particular, the NWIS (Northwest Instruments) performance
	   analyzer never flew, even though they tried several
	   times to make us happy -- I thought the NWIS salesman
	   was going to cry when we told him to take his stuff back!
	- Intel ready to serve, since we're building large volume
	  products based around their chips.
	- I2ICE's were a lot cheaper than HP64000's
-- 
		Rick Richardson, President, PC Research, Inc.

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