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Bus Hound version 8.0




Experience the power of a software bus analyzer for capturing I/O, protocol and sending commands to devices.


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The free version limits the amount of data that can be captured, but is otherwise identical to the full version. There is no registration, no adware, and no expiration.

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Bus Support
USB
NVMe
I2C HID
SmBus HID
SATA / IDE
SCSI / ATAPI
FireWire, 1394A/B
Bluetooth
Fibre Channel
iSCSI, SAS
PC Card, PCMCIA
serial port
parallel port
ps/2 ports
...and more
Device Support
Flash drives
Mouse
Keyboard
HID
Web Cams
Headsets
Speakers
Blu-ray, DVD, CD
Hard drives
Tape drives
Printers
Scanners
Modems
...and more
  OS Support
Windows 10 and 11
x64 and ARM64
Server 2019-2025
all Windows versions from Win95 and NT4 onward for full version customers


  Power User Features
Capture terabytes of I/O at a time
Accurate, cancelable progress bars on all operations
Select or deselect individual USB endpoints
64-bit hex editor
Watch I/O in real time -- smooth, responsive and flicker free
Trigger on conditions
Build and submit custom commands
Issue bus resets
Capture the system startup process
View low level protocol including SCSI sense data and SMART commands
View microsecond resolution timing
Drag and drop protocol to other applications or save it to a zip file
Capture isochronous transfers
  Ideal Uses
Device driver development
Firmware development
Inspect low level I/O
Reverse engineer protocol
Acquire performance measurements
Research the principles of device operation
Uncover hard to find device properties



Data captured from an NVMe M.2 disk



Settings and triggers



Sending a string descriptor request to a USB mouse







"Thank you for the great software. It provided just the proof I needed to get my hardware subcontractor to fix their product's firmware. It worked as advertised and at a price MUCH lower than a full-blown SCSI-bus hardware analyzer. Thanks again and keep up the good work!"
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