Price Range
Hardware
Included
JDSU Bus Doctor
$30,000.00
Hardware
RX-108P w/ 256M event buffer
Frontline ComProbe
$6,000.00 - $8,000.00
(Laptop not included)
DR-MC-1000 SDIO/MMC Pod
(SD and µSD tap not shown)
Host interface
Trace Buffer Size
Protocol Support
SD compliance
MicroSD adapter
Bus Width
Max SDIO CLK
External HW
trigger
Bus Triggering
Timing resolution
Capture modes
Backwards
Compatibility
with Bus Doctor
taps
Extensibility
Support Contract
Software
Included
HS USB
256 million events
(~30min – 2hr in state mode
depending on SD CLK frequency)
SPI/SD/SDIO/MMC/CE-ATA
V2.0 (SDHC+SDXC)
Yes
1/4/8 bit
52 MHz
BNC in/out
HS USB
N/A
(Limited by host PC available storage)
SPI/SD/SDIO/MMC/Bluetooth over SDIO
V2.0 (SDHC+SDXC)
Yes
1/4 bit
50 MHz
None
By CMD type + CMD field value
By bus line states
4 ns
Timing & State
Supports all legacy PCMCIA,
CompactFlash, USB, etc taps that you
currently own.
None (you can only start/stop recording
manually)
1 ms
State only
N/A
ATA/ATAPI, SCSI, SATA, CardBus, Logic
Analysis, PCI/X with additional ~$100
cost
1 yr HW/SW
Software
Bus Doctor CE v5.5
Ethernet, Bluetooth, WiFi with additional
$10,000 cost
No formal contract
Virtual Sniffer + Frame Display v12.1.22.1
GUI Screenshot
Waveform
Display (similar
to logic analyzer)
Filter Captured
Trace
Find within
captured trace
Error Detection
Traffic Metrics
Histogram
display
Real-time Stats
Display
Custom Statistics
Load/Save
Capture
Configuration
Export to file
Free viewer
software
Yes
No
By CMD type only
By CMD type and CMD field value
By CMD and CMD field value
By hex value only
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Read/Write/CMD/Data per second
(graphical VU meter)
Yes
Yes
Host/Controller utilization percentage (text
display)
No
No
Proprietary trace file
CMD to TXT file
Data to TXT/HTML/CSV/BIN file
Custom statistics to TXT file
Yes
Proprietary trace file
CMD or CMD + Data to HTML file
CMD to CSV file
Yes
Summary:
The Bus Doctor is the ideal solution if you can afford it. It even supports all the legacy Bus Doctor taps
you currently own. If you can’t afford the Bus Doctor, I’d say that the ComProbe would get the job
done, just not as easily. It lacks in terms of real-time bus statistics, the software GUI, and ability to look
directly at the timing of the bus lines.