CWAV’s newest software product, the streaming Data Extractor software, is used with CWAV's USBee AX-Pro to provide a detailed view into many of today's embedded communications busses.

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An optional software product, it allows for the extraction of raw data from various embedded busses to store off to disk or stream to another application. The Data Extractor is able to collect raw data from Parallel, Serial, SPI, I2C, I2S, High Speed Async, USB Full and Low Speed, SMBus, 1-Wire and CAN busses.

While there are other stand-alone devices on the market, the Data Extractor is able to support all of the various busses, pull out transaction data on the fly, run indefinitely, capture entire test sequences, monitor embedded system data flows during normal operation, and process or store megabytes, gigabytes or terabytes of information. The software runs as a stand-alone executable or allows the user to write dedicated software to further process the extracted data using the Extractor API library. Each Data Extractor is priced at $495. The Data Extractor Bundle, which combines all ten Data Extractors, is priced at $1995.

The USBee AX Test Pod is a PC-based pod that functions as a programmable oscilloscope, logic analyzer and digital signal generator all in one unit. Offered at three price points, the AX comes in Standard, Plus and Pro packages. The AX-Standard comes with oscilloscope and logic analyzer modules and is priced at $445. The AX-Plus builds on the Standard's strengths and adds a signal generator and USB, 12C, SPI and Async decoder modules; it is priced at $745. The AX-Pro contains all pieces included in the Plus package with the addition of a data logger, frequency counter, remote controller, PWM controller, frequency generator, pulse counter and USBee AX ToolBuilder source code library. The source code library allows programming in Visual Basic of Visual C. This AX-Pro is priced at $1045.