A bus analyzer is a computer bus analysis tool, often a combination of hardware and software, used during development of hardware or device drivers for a specific bus, diagnosing bus or device failures, or reverse engineering. The bus analyzer monitors the bus traffic and decodes and displays the data. It is essentially a logic analyzer with some additional knowledge of the underlying bus traffic characteristics.

See also

• JTAG (boundary scan)
• Packet sniffer

External links

• PCI analyzers:
  • Corelis
• USB analyzers:
  • Ellisys USB Tracker 110 for USB 1.1 and USB Explorer 200 for USB 2.0

Computer buses | Electronic test equipment | Digital electronics