About
Serial is a modern terminal emulator designed to assist engineers and system administrators in efficiently working with servers, network equipment, and hardware devices.
For system administrators, Serial supports all the critical sequences and interrupts required for connecting to and managing routers and switches.It also features a full-fledged terminal emulator for interacting with network hardware and Unix-based applications—including text editors such as vi and Emacs.
Engineers will appreciate Serial's built-in support for embedded devices, including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, and thousands of others.Serial includes several useful features specifically tailored for working with these devices, such as the ability to reset an Arduino or connect to a BeagleBone via USB.
Finally, Serial supports the most common USB-to-Serial adapters without the need to install drivers or additional software.
Serial Features:
- Supports hundreds of RS-232 and RS-485 USB-to-Serial adapters
- Supports Bluetooth devices with a serial interface
- Supports USB Communication Device Class (CDC) devices
- Full-featured terminal emulation (Xterm, Linux, and VT100)
- Operates without the need for drivers for many common devices
- Supports XMODEM and YMODEM file transfers
- Line-buffered transmission mode with command history
- Supports international character encodings, including UTF-8, KOI8-R, and many others