Serial Monitor Lite (DMS) 6.18.00.3086 is such an advanced and efficient tool for all software and hardware developers working with serial ports. The full set of features and maximum product functionality will save a lot of your time while working with serial port data and protocols. Serial Port Monitor allows you to capture, display, analyze, record and replay all serial port data exchanged between the Windows application and the serial device. It can be successfully used in application development, device driver or serial hardware development and offers the powerful platform for effective coding, testing and optimization.Major Features:Serial Ports and Devices MonitoringThe Serial Monitor automatically detects all installed serial ports and PnP or virtual serial devices and displays them, grouping by device class. For each device, device's friendly name, description, location information and manufacturer's name are displayed. The list is automatically updated every time you plug or unplug a serial device.The special "Next connected device" item allows you to monitor the next device you plug into your computer.Obtaining Additional InformationClick on the device in a list to get its capabilities information, which is displayed in the Serial Device Information window.Controlling Serial DevicesYou can restart the selected serial device or view its properties. These and other options are easily accessed through the popup menu.Displaying Monitored Packets in a Table (Serial)The Packet View visualizer provides the combination of brief packet information for each monitored packet and in-depth analyzis for an individually selected packet. It is structurally divided into two panes.The upper pane displays brief information for each monitored packet in several columns in a table. Use the mouse to change the columns' size and position as well as to change the relative size of the upper and lower panes.To locate the specific packet use either the Go to Packet or Find commands. Use the Copy and Export commands to copy/export all or some of the monitored packets in the same way you see them on the screen.The lower pane lists all other supported and installed visualizers which are used to display the individual packet information. Once you select the packet in the upper pane, all its internal fields are decoded and displayed in the visualizers in the lower pane. For example, select a MODBUS protocol packet to see it decoded in Request View and MODBUS View visualizers.Displaying Monitored Packets in a Hex/ASCII View (Serial)The Request View visualizer displays each monitored packet. It decodes the packet's internal fields, and works in two modes - Basic and Complete. In Basic mode only the main packet fields are decoded and displayed, while some others being available as popup hints. In Complete mode the entire packet is decoded and all accompanying data is provided in Hex/ASCII view. You can switch between two modes at any time and, moreover, you can switch the mode for individual packets.The contents of the visualizer can be copied into the Clipboard or exported into the file in various formats. Use the mouse to select the portion to copy/export or leave the selection empty to copy the entire visualizer contents.Use the powerful Find and Go to Packet commands to locate the information you need.With outstanding performance at the first place, the Request View visualizer is your best tool to analyze monitored data.Displaying Read/Written Data in Separate Windows (Serial)The Data View visualizer has two panes. It displays incoming data in one pane and outgoing data in another one.The contents of each pane can be copied into the Clipboard or exported into the file in various formats. Use the mouse to select the portion to copy/export or leave the selection empty to copy the entire pane.Use the powerful Find and Go to Packet commands to locate the information you need.Its unique data filtering capabilities make this visualizer a very handy protocol analyzis tool.Displaying Monitored Data in a Serial Console (Serial)Console View visualizer is especially useful while monitoring a text-based protocol. It displays incoming and outgoing text data. Instead of exposing data as individual packets, as most other visualizers do, it groups data according to the underlying text protocol. You will easily see the request sent to the device as well as device's response.The visualizer supports line numbering, copying and exporting functions as well as Find and Go To Packet commands.Displaying the Status of Serial (Modem) Control LinesWhen monitoring a modem connection, the Line View visualizer may reproduce the well-known modem "lamps", which they used to have on older modems. Most modern modems and all kind of internal or software-based modems do not have these lamps now. Taking into account the fact that those lamps used to depict the state of corresponding signal "lines", it sometimes maybe important to control their state. The Line View visualizer is the feature that shows you the required information.General Filtering FeatureDevice Monitoring Studio offers a generic filtering feature, which allows you to configure filtering for different visualizers and create filtering schemes and quickly apply them to different visualizer windows.Enhancements:Fixed BugsSeveral bug fixes and performance improvementsSeveral reported bugs have been fixed. This release also has different stability and performance imrovements.Crash in Packet ViewSerial Monitor may crash in Packet View in some rare situations. Fixed.New FeaturesAbility to create virtual serial portsSerial Monitor now provides the ability to create virtual serial ports with different routing possibilities.Updated FeaturesNew column in Packet ViewPacket View now has a new column "Time Diff" that displays the time difference between packets.