Serial Communication Tools

Serial Port Reader

When setting up PC<->microcontroller communication, it helps to be able to view the serial data being received by the PC from the microcontroller. Personally, I find HyperTerminal a bit of a pain to use, so I've built my own little app for reading incoming serial data (using C#).

You can download the application below:
Download - SerialReader.exe (Executable - 24 KB)
Download - SerialReader.zip (Source code - 99 KB)

Serial Grapher

Serial Grapher is a little program that I wrote so that I could see, visually, how data received from a microcontroller is changing over time.

The program plots a steadily scrolling line across the screen - changes in the y-axis correspond to changes in the byte value received from the microcontroller (via a serial port).

You can download the application here:
Download - SerialGrapher.exe (Executable - 32 KB)