Rocco Logic

Portable, cross-platform, Open-Source signal analysis software suite

Highlights

Cross Platform

Hunt for bugs or run automated testing on Linux, macOS, BSD, even Windows

Broad Hardware Support

From Agilent to ZEROPLUS, all Logic Analyzers and MDOs are welcome

Powerful Protocol Decoding

Extensible, stackable, and written in Python 3. We have one of the biggest libraries of protocol decoders even compared to commercial offerings.

Reusable and Modular

With librocco and libroccodecode you can integrate logic analyzer and protocol decoding support into your own frontends or test setups.

Wide Format Support

Import and export traces in multiple formats, such as raw binary, VCD, CSV, and more.

Multiple Frontends

Deep dive traces looking for bugs with RoccoView or use rocco-cli for shell-scriptable automation.

The Rocco Logic project is a revival fork of the sigrok project. We are grateful to all the developers and maintainers that have poured their efforts into sigrok over the years.

Rocco Logic continues the legacy of sigrok aiming to create a portable, cross-platform, Open-Source signal analysis software suite that supports a wide range of devices1.

We also want to focus on maintaining the commons and on software by humans for humans. This means we have a Code of Conduct to define the rules of engagement including the prohibition of AI tool use for any project contributions.

Project goals

  • Regular releases We aim to have regular binary releases. The cadence is still to be determined.
  • Timely PR reviews We aim to have a streamlined contribution process with timely responses to Pull Requests. Our goal is to do optimistic merging without overly focusing on nitpicks.
  • Modern contribution practices We are maintaining the project on a modern software forge lowering the barrier to contribution. Including CI systems and templates.
  • Hardware manufacturer agnostic We are not a vendor fork that is focusing on their own hardware without the intent to contribute back to the main project. If sigrok ends up being resurrected we will be happy to contribute all of our work back to the originating project. We also are more than happy to merge pull requests from any logic analyzer vendor that would like their hardware to be supported by the project.

Community

If you have any questions, comments, or just want to hang out you can get in touch with us via IRC or Discord! The channel is bridged between the two platforms so you can choose which platform suites you better.

IRC

Join the #prj-rocco channel on the 1BitSquared IRC server.

Discord

Join the #rocco-logic channel on the 1BitSquared Discord server.

The channel hosting is maintained and provided to the project by 1BitSquared We don't have a mailinglist or forum set up yet.

Footnotes

1

Unlike Sigrok our goal is to refocus the project on logic analysis, improving maintainability. This means we will not widen the support to non logic analysis specific devices like multimeters. The support for them will not be actively maintained and will potentially be removed over time.