Acquiring test data from an electronic circuit

1. A system for acquiring test data from an electronic circuit, the system comprising:

a probe mounted adjacent to a capture point on the electronic circuit board, the electronic circuit board having an electronic circuit, the probe having a computer processor and a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:

capturing by the probe an electronic signal of the electronic circuit; digitizing by the probe the captured signal;

transmitting by the probe the digitized signal from the probe through a data communications connection to a remote device; and

synchronizing acquisition of test data by the probe with acquisition of test data by one or more other probes, including providing from the remote device through the data communications connection to such synchronized probes a synchronization clock signal.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising computer program instructions capable of storing by the probe the digitized signal in the probe.

3. The system of claim 1 further comprising computer program instructions capable of processing by the probe the digitized signal.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the remote device comprises a computer processor and a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the remote device computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:

receiving in the remote device through the data communications connection digitized signals captured and transmitted from two or more such synchronized probes; synchronizing by the remote device the received signals for display; and

displaying by the remote device the synchronized signals.

5. A computer program product for acquiring test data from an electronic circuit, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transmission, computer readable, recordable medium, the computer program product further comprising computer program instructions, disposed within the non-transmission, computer readable, recordable medium, capable of, when executed, of causing a computer to carry out the steps of:

capturing by a probe mounted adjacent to a capture point on an electronic circuit board, the electronic circuit board having an electronic circuit, an electronic signal of the electronic circuit, wherein the probe comprises the computer program product;

digitizing by the probe the captured signal;

transmitting by the probe the digitized signal from the probe through a data communications connection to a remote device; and

synchronizing acquisition of test data by the probe with acquisition of test data by one or more other probes, including providing from the remote device through the data communications connection to such synchronized probes a synchronization clock signal.

6. The computer program product of claim 5 further comprising computer program instructions capable of, when executed, of causing a computer to carry out the steps of storing by the probe the digitized signal in the probe.

7. The computer program product of claim 5 further comprising computer program instructions capable of, when executed, of causing a computer to carry out the steps of processing by the probe the digitized signal.

8. The computer program product of claim 5 further comprising computer program instructions capable of, when executed, of causing a computer to carry out the steps of:

receiving in the remote device through the data communications connection digitized signals captured and transmitted from two or more such synchronized probes;

synchronizing by the remote device the received signals for display; and

displaying by the remote device the synchronized signals.