On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Madhavi Manchala <madhavi.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear All, > > We have gone through following link about the serial monitoring tool. > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO-11.html#serial_mon > > However, we know about the USBMON which is used to monitor the USB > traffic on the USB bus. Like USBMON, which is the best one? Is there > any other tool, apart from the above link, for monitoring the serial > data?\ I have a nifty little hardware gadget called Logic. It's an 8 channel logic analyzer by a company called Saleae, and it has Linux/Windows/Mac GUI clients available for it. http://www.saleae.com/logic/features/ It has decoders that can decode async serial. You may need voltage converters in order to make it work (depends on your HW). It also works with i2c and spi. I also have an even cheaper device called a Bus Pirate. It doesn't need a GUI, you talk to it using a terminal emulator. http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9544 It can deal with serial, i2c, spi. It can deal with wider input voltages without requiring external voltage converters. For the more adventurous, there is a 32-channel device called "OpenBench Logic Sniffer" http://gadgetforge.gadgetfactory.net/gf/project/butterflylogic/ I've heard that there are issues getting the UI running under linux. I have one, but haven't gotten around to using it yet. -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.davehylands.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
