Debug RS-232 with MicroTAP^TM

MicroTAP transforms your PC into a passive or active RS-232 data and signal line monitor and communications debugger that can outperform expensive dedicated hardware line monitors - at a fraction of the cost.

Now programmers, engineers, technicians, scientists, and test personnel (basically, anyone that deals with serial communications) can eliminate guesswork when developing, monitoring or documenting serial transmissions and protocols. No more mysteries. No more headaches. Make the invisible visible! You will no longer be in doubt about who sent what - and you can prove it!

• Performance. MicroTAP outperforms the competition at asynchronous data collection efficiency and live display speed.
• Flexibility. No one else offers concurrent user-defined display windows, context-sensitive Hypertext help, four selectable color sets (with LCD support for laptops), integrated font and translation string editors, log trigger positioning, timestamped signal traces, or PostScript hardcopy output (including signal traces).
• Accuracy. MicroTAP delivers microsecond timestamp resolution for all data and signal events.
• Value. Hardware monitors costing thousands of dollars cannot match these capabilities or features.

  Provide a powerful windowed interface to RS-232 serial transmissions and signals.

  Resolve individual data and signal events to the microsecond.

  Run up to four different displays concurrently in user-configurable multitasking windows.

  View two completely different areas of a log file at the same time with four independent timestamped cursors.

  Search log files for specific data, errors, signals and strings.

  Collect up to 64 megabytes of timestamped data and signals.

  Export your data to PostScript, binary or ASCII files for reports and documentation. Import your PostScript output into word processor or page-layout programs.

  Display context-sensitive Hypertext help for all program modes.

  With EGA or VGA hardware you can generate fonts for individual characters or choose from five pre-defined font maps.

  Record keystroke sequences to macro keys. Record often-used display arrangements to separate macro keys.

  View data in any format: Hexadecimal, Decimal, Octal, ASCII, EBCDIC, or user-defined formats.

  Operate at all hardware baud rates (from 2 to 115,200) while matching user-specified trigger strings against incoming characters.

  Control RAM buffer size (64K to 384K), log file size (32K to 64M), as well as pre-, center-, and post-trigger data positioning.

  Save application specific operating parameters into configuration files for instant context switching.

  Passive bi-directional monitoring or interactive testing and control.