Owner notes on bench tools, measurements, and debugging techniques.
A practical checklist for trigger settings, sample rate, grounding, pre-trigger capture and choosing the right digital tool.
How to separate I2C acknowledgments, rise-time problems and software assumptions using a logic analyzer and oscilloscope.
A beginner workflow for safe connections, raw captures, triggers, SPI and I2C decoding, and saving useful evidence.
Choose analog waveform inspection, digital transaction decoding or both for I2C faults, with device and software limits made explicit.
Understand host software, acquisition modes, protocol decoding and ground references before choosing a PC-dependent oscilloscope.