These solutions range from all in one devices such as the Analog Discovery 2 by Digilent to dedicated input only products such as the Saleae Logic devices to high end products from Keysight. When a more comprehensive look at data is required then a protocol analyser is usually required. When choosing a suitable serial terminal application, each specimen of software should be reviewed under its own merit to ensure its suitability for the intended task. It should be noted that each of the terminal applications mentioned in this blog were tested for the specific purpose of receiving with a high baud rate. Further to the recent addendum testing PCTerm, this application may replace TeraTerm in some instances. Personally, i am habitual in installing software such as RealTerm and TeraTerm on computers involved in software or hardware development.
PCTerm, RealTerm and TeraTerm are noteworthy Windows based serial terminal applications which would serve hobbyists and professionals alike. The properties of the SCB UART displayed the 3Mbaud UART data rate. PSoC Creator Top Design SCB UART with 24MHz External Clock Using the UART SCB component with an external 48MHz clock resulted in the required 3Mbaud data rate. As this clock rate results in only 1.5Mbaud, the HFClock was increased to 48MHz.
PSoC Creator Changes for PCTerm The default HFClock 'HFClk' for the PSoC Creator UART is 24MHz.
