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Serialtest Async for Windows^Ž 9x/Me/NT/2000

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Turns ANY Win 9x/NT PC into a full-featured async serial data and protocol analyzer. Your PC, coupled with this true 32-bit user-friendly software provides a powerful yet economical platform for data communication troubleshooting and development.

The Serialtest Async for Win 9x/NT package includes the FTS - Serialtest for Windows 95/98/NT software and a custom cable set. For our DOS users, the cables you already own will work great with FTS, all you need to do is purchase a software upgrade. The cable set connects to your PC via the serial ports and allows the FTS software to passively monitor or actively test async devices.

The Live Events window shows you, in real-time, the information flowing between any two serial devices -- both data bytes and control signals. The Review Events, Frame Summary and Frame Decode windows of the FTS software allow you to examine, search, and manipulate the data as it is being captured. You don't have to stop capturing data to begin analyzing your problem, so valuable troubleshooting time is saved.

The Review Events window provides byte level details that include control signal and timestamp information. The Frame Summary window displays a one line summary of each frame/packet. The Frame Decode window displays a comprehensive layered decode of each frame/packet. Protocol decodes include PPP, SLIP and TCP/IP. If you have a proprietary decode or wish to add extensions to the standard decodes, ask us about the PDAedit tool.

The Statistics window provides DTE and DCE traffic totals that include bytes, frames, errors, characters per second, and utilization. This information can help simplify understanding what's happening on the link saving valuable troubleshooting time.

The Breakout Box window provides a real-time graphical view of six RS-232 control signals (DTR, RTS, CTS, DSR, CD and RI.) Also included are counters showing the number of times a control signal has changed. The Signal Display window allows you to scroll and analyze captured control signal transitions in relation to captured data bytes and packets.

The Transmit window allows you to emulate either the DTE or DCE side of the communications link, enabling you to actively test a device.

The File Export Utility allows you to export captured data from Serialtest into text or binary format for inclusion in reports or for further analysis purposes. You can easily export data for use in your favorite word processor or spreadsheet (ie. Word or Excel), or manipulate the data in your custom analysis program.

The FTS software is user-friendly and the on-line Help provides you with all the information you need to use the product. It comes with a handy quick start guide to help new users, plus it will ease the transition to the Win 9x/NT product for our DOS users.

To preview the windows, click here, or click on the highlighted window names to go directly to that window.

Serialtest Features

Data Capture

	Data captured includes data bytes, control signals and error conditions.
	Data can be captured to RAM and directly to disk with no file size limit.
	Bit reversal feature interprets data MSB or LSB first.

Data Displays

	View multiple windows at the same time. Analyze data as it is being captured using the Review Events, Frame Decode and Frame Summary windows.
	Detailed Frame/Packet level information.
	Displays byte level information in a split-line DTE over DCE or mixed format.
	Characters can be displayed in ASCII, EBCDIC or Baudot.
	Nonprintable characters displayed using hex and mnemonics.
	Captured data can be searched; search types include timestamp, controls signals, errors, and patterns ( patterns include bit and nibble level wildcard characters.)

Statistics Display

Includes DTE and DCE totals for bytes, frames, events, errors, characters per second, and utilization.

Control Signal Display

	Live breakout box includes timing diagrams and counters.
	Captured control signal transitions can be viewed in relation to captured data bytes using timing diagrams.

Data Transmission

	Transmit strings or files once, multiple times or continuously.
	Insert delays in millisecond, second or minute increments.
	Set controls leads on or off.

Timestamping

	Absolute or relative display of event time.
	Delta time and effective data rate calculations.
	Timestamping resolutions ranging from 10 milliseconds to 1 microsecond.

Protocol Decodes

	PPP
	SLIP
	TCP/IP
	Soon to include user-defined/customized decodes

Configuration Management

Name and save an unlimited number of configurations.

File Export Utility

	Export data into a spreadsheet or word processing program.
	Use with your decoding program for custom decodes and statistics
	Retransmit data

Help

	On-line Help provides all the information you need to use the product.
	Handy quick start guide gets you up and running quickly.

Technical Specifications

Data Interfaces	RS-232, converters available for other interfaces
Baud Rates	Up to 115.2K bps, including user defined baud rate support
Operating Modes	Monitor, Source DTE, Source DCE
Protocol Decodes	PPP, SLIP, TCP/IP, plus user customizable protocol stack
Bit Order	LSB (normal) or MSB (reversed) first
Flow Control	Software (including user defined XON/XOFF characters), Hardware (RTS/CTS and DTR/DSR)
Character Sets	ASCII, 7-bit ASCII, EBCDIC, Baudot
Parity	None, Even, Odd, Mark, Space
Word Length	5, 6, 7, 8 bits
Stop Bits	1, 1.5, 2
Timestamping	Absolute and relative timestamping, resolutions down to 1 microsecond

System Requirements

PC with Windows 95, 98 or NT loaded and a Pentium processor or higher:

8 Meg of RAM (16 required for NT)

5 Meg Hard Disk Space (capture file size is limited by disk size)

Minimum of one serial port, two required for bi-directional monitoring

Serialtest Async supports COM1 through COM64.

Maximum data rate supported is dependent on PC processor speed.

Serialtest, SerialBERT, ComProbe, ComVerter, and Ethertest and the phrase "The Leader in Portable, Affordable, PC-Based Datacom Test Equipment" are registered trademarks of Frontline Test Equipment, Inc. Serialtest Pegasus, FrameDecoder and Frontline are trademarks of Frontline Test Equipment, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.

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Serialtest Async for WindowsŽ 9x/Me/NT/2000