SerialTool is a graphical utility for debugging serial and network communications. It combines serial port monitoring, TCP/UDP communication, terminal functionality, waveform visualization and file transfer in a single application.
The software is designed for developers working with embedded devices, microcontrollers and equipment that communicates through serial interfaces. It allows transmitted and received data to be examined in hexadecimal or text form, with selectable character encodings for devices that use different text representations.
One of SerialTool’s more useful capabilities is its waveform display. Rather than simply showing a stream of incoming values, it can plot measurements received from a connected device. This makes it possible to examine changing sensor readings or other time-dependent information while debugging an embedded system. The application uses a defined communication protocol for waveform transmission, with supporting code available for integration into the device firmware.
SerialTool also includes syntax highlighting for text-based communication protocols. This is useful when examining structured data such as JSON, particularly where incoming messages contain a mixture of commands, parameters and diagnostic information.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports communication through serial ports, TCP and UDP connections.
- Transmits and receives data in ASCII and hexadecimal formats.
- Configurable character encodings including ASCII, GB-2312, GB-18030, UTF-8, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE.
- Syntax highlighting for Bash, JSON, Lua, C/C++ and other supported formats.
- Waveform visualization supporting up to 16 channels by default, with additional channels possible through recompilation.
- Imports previously saved waveform data and exports recorded measurements in plain text or CSV format.
- Supports waveform timestamps containing date, time, milliseconds and sampling-rate information supplied by the connected device.
- Provides an embedded-device communication protocol and accompanying source code for transmitting waveform measurements.
- Terminal functionality for interacting with connected equipment.
- File transfer using the XModem protocol.
- Internationalization support and selectable interface skins.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux and Windows.
Website: github.com/HoGC/SerialTool
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Developer: HoGC
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
SerialTool written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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