Usually when debugging I have a debug UART spitting out information on my boards. It would be really useful if I could take one of the pins from the analyser and use it to receive ASCII text in a separate terminal like window. Saves me having to plug in another usb device, open another terminal program. Is this possible?
Trev
Hey Trev,
I’m not sure that I understand. Would you like the data of each UART channel to be displayed on a different terminal? or would you like to use your own terminal instead of the built-in one?
Thanks for the feedback!
I want the option to display ASCII uart data like a terminal program. So it displays lines of text, \n\r stuff is processed\ etc. You know when you connect to a the debug port of a linux board for example and you get the full boot messages? It would be nice to be able to use a logic analyser to read that data in whilst doing other stuff as well.
Hi, have finally sat down to debug some work and can properly explain the requirement. I have a unit that I am debugging. I have serial data coming out that gives me useful messages. It would be nice to be able to read them properly like a terminal window. The Terminal output doesn’t format well as can be seen from the screenshot.
Being able to use a pin or 2 of the analyzer as a serial connection with properly formatted data would be a nice feature.
You’re absolutely right. The issue is the output format of the analyzers and we’re working on fixing that (Async Serial for a start).
Well if the data could be streamed to a network port maybe something like putty could pick it up and it would save you a job?
We can stream it to a network port, however, I’m not sure how it’d help if the format is “broken”.
Well once fixed if each analyser could output to a port that would be great
Can you elaborate on that? What’s the purpose of streaming it to a network port?
I want to make sure that we’ll build this feature correctly
If its streamed to a port I think putty can pick it up and that means the debug data window is outside of the saleae app. I can resize the putty window and move it to a different display.
