Bus Hound

Bus Hound is the first software bus analyzer that can capture I/O, protocol, and performance measurements.

Here are some key features of "Bus Hound":

￭ Supports IDE, SCSI, USB, Bluetooth, FireWire, serial ports, parallel ports, ps/2 mice, and ps/2 keyboards. ￭ Supports all types of devices such as hard drives, DVD, mice, scanners, web cams, and everything else ￭ Supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions. ￭ Capture megabytes of data limited only by available memory ￭ Automatically stop the capture upon a trigger condition ￭ Measure individual read, write, and isochronous device performance ￭ Captures device driver packets such as IRPs ￭ Filter what type of phases are captured ￭ Run on an unlimited number of machines at the same time ￭ Capture any number of devices in parallel, regardless of bus type ￭ Fits on a diskette for easy transportability and quick downloads ￭ Drag and drop the captured data to other products in html format ￭ Save captured data to a text file or zip file ￭ Simple device selection from a graphical tree of devices ￭ Capture the system startup process ￭ Customize captured data such as the byte width per line, column order, and column types of interest ￭ View low level protocol including SCSI sense data and USB setup packets ￭ View microsecond resolution timing of each phase ￭ Watch I/O on screen in real time as it happens ￭ Pure software solution--no extra hardware or system changes needed

Limitations:

￭ It captures up to 32 commands ￭ It captures only the first 8 bytes of each data transfer ￭ Nag Screen