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How do people use an oscilloscope to analyze USB packets and such? I saw a video by Ben Eater and the way he did it was by exposing the necessary wires of a USB cable and probing those. Is this standard or are there types out there that have this functionally built-in as some accessory or something?

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[โ€“] emptiness@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds like an expensive oscilloscope.

I use an OpenVizsla.

The one Ben Eater was using was a Keysight 200MHz, I think with 2GS/s sampling.