Circuit designs with small data valid windows require the designer to select a state analyzer with specifications compatible with the data valid window. A state analyzer with a setup and hold window equal to or less than receiving devices in the circuit will provide the most reliable measurements. That depends on how your state analyzer acquires data. There are two basic methods of acquiring data, synchronous and asynchronous. At first this may seem to be an oxymoron.
Some logic analyzers use an asynchronous sampler to make state measurements.
By sampling asynchronously and then aligning the external clock to the nearest asynchronous sample a pseudo state analyzer is created. Asynchronous sampling has an extra limiting component. Asynchronous acquisition is limited to a minimum setup and hold specification of twice the period of the sampling clock. Synchronous acquisition latches the data sampled and produces the smallest possible setup and hold window for a logic analyzer because asynchronous sampling frequency is not a factor. Figure 1 provides setup and hold time formulas for asynchronous and synchronous sampling.