Having recently purchased an msox2024a I can say it's an impressive scope (especially at agilent's ebay store pricing).
Anyhow, I've played a bit with the serial decode and can't imagine using it long term with scope probes hanging all over a project.
Given I have the msox version and it comes with the typical excellent logic analyser cables/clips it seems daft to have to use the analog probes for serial decoding.
So, to that end I have designed and sent off to fab a panel that includes the layout below. Essentially it is just an adapter (with 4 bnc vertical pcb mount females) that will take 2/3/4 bnc cables (not the scope probes) and properly terminate them for interface to the standard agilent 20x2 logic analyser female connector.
The termination in conjunction with the impedance of the analyser probe tips creates a divide by 10, so compatible with the divide by 10 scope probes and it means you don't have to keep changing the channel settings each time you switch from the analog scope probes and the analyser.
Should make probing/decoding serial channels on boards much easier than with the lumbering analog probes.
![](http://www.taskled.com/leds/scopeprobe.gif)
I should receive boards in a week or so and will post up some pics of the 'real' thing. BNC's and 20x2 shrouded header should be in my hands today.
cheers,
george.