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Once you’ve used Serialtest, you will never want to work on another serial communication problem without it. Serialtest will help you quickly and easily find and fix even the most obscure problems and save countless hours of troubleshooting time. It is portable and easy-to-use with power and flexibility. No matter what the industry, Serialtest is an indispensable troubleshooting tool.
Once you’ve used Serialtest, you will never want to work on another serial communication problem without it. Serialtest will help you quickly and easily find and fix even the most obscure problems and save countless hours of troubleshooting time. It is portable and easy-to-use with power and flexibility. No matter what the industry, Serialtest is an indispensable troubleshooting tool.
Discontinued!
This product has been discontinued and is no longer available.
This is the direct replacement:
The enhanced Serialtest protocol analyzer software enables shorter and less costly development intervals for data communication equipment and applications, faster and more efficient network installations, and improved mean-time-to-repair following equipment and network outages.
To keep pace with advances in technology, the NetDecoder™ analyzer has been upgraded to support the new "RS-232 ComProbe II". Most new laptops and PCs do not have PCMCIA interfaces and the PC industry has migrated towards USB ports. To help our customers monitor asynchronous serial communications via their PC's USB port, Frontline has introduced its new RS-232 ComProbe II. This new RS-232 ComProbe II is a flash drive-sized interface that plugs into a PC's USB port.
The RS-232 ComProbe II monitors and captures Asynchronous RS-232 communications. It does not lose timing and control signal information. With this new interface, Frontline has made its NetDecoder analyzer more rugged, easier to use, portable and transportable. It allows you to spend more time doing your real job.
Monitoring Flexibility
The RS-232 ComProbe II provides customers a great deal of flexibility in tapping into Async RS-232 bus configurations to address different monitoring situations.
RS-232 ComProbe II can be used:
I/O Settings
The new RS-232 ComProbe II allows the user plenty of options for monitoring various serial communication setups. The I/O Settings dialog allows the user to configure the setup.The RS-232 ComProbe II supports data rates up to 921.6Kbps. The user can pick one of the standard rates in the drop down box in the I/O Settings dialog. For non-standard rates, the user can simply type in the value in the box.
The RS-232 ComProbe II can monitor serial communications with 5, 6, 7 or 8 data bits and with 1, 1.5 or 2 stop bits. The device also supports all the standard parity types (None, Odd, Even, Mark, Space, and Ignore).
The user can also choose the bit order on their serial communication circuit. The choices are either LSB (least significant bit) first or MSB (most significant bit) first. LSB first is normal, while MSB first is considered "reversed" from normal. This option reverses the order of the bits within each byte.
The user can also choose to monitor either DTE only, DCE only or both DTE and DCE ends of the communication.
Features
Applications
| Supported Protocols | Modbus RTU\ASCII, PPP, SLIP, TCP/IP, Custom Decodes, Saia-Burgess S-Bus |
| Data Interfaces | RS-232/422/485/449/530 (may require extra hardware) |
| Communication Modes | Asynchronous Only |
| Character Sets | ASCII, 7-bit ASCII, EBCDIC, Baudot |
| Word Length | 5, 6, 7, 8 bits |
| Stop Bits | 1, 1.5, 2 |
| Supported Protocols | Modbus RTU\ASCII, PPP, SLIP, TCP/IP, Custom Decodes, Saia-Burgess S-Bus |
| Data Interfaces | RS-232/422/485/449/530 (may require extra hardware) |
| Communication Modes | Asynchronous Only |
| Character Sets | ASCII, 7-bit ASCII, EBCDIC, Baudot |
| Word Length | 5, 6, 7, 8 bits |
| Stop Bits | 1, 1.5, 2 |
