Virtual Serial Port Driver allows creating a large number of virtual COM ports and offers you huge possibilities to fully emulate the behavior of serial ports. Virtual Serial Port software is more than a simple COM port emulator. It provides flexible port creation, management and deletion, allows testing of serial software, and supports high-speed data transfer between control lines and virtual COM ports. Various applications can exchange data using a virtual serial port connected to a virtual null modem cable. Serial data sent from one port to another will be received immediately.
Key Features of the Virtual Serial Port Driver
The Virtual COM Port Driver is a powerful technology designed specifically for those who develop, test or debug serial port software and hardware. This solution will provide your system with the required number of virtual COM interfaces.
An easy way to add more COM ports to your system
Virtual Serial Port Driver is a software solution that doesn't require any additional hardware and cables. No need to occupy a real COM port. A virtual port exactly mimics a real port, so applications don't see any difference.
Unlimited number of COM ports
With the virtual serial port driver, you can create as many virtual port pairs as you want. Any data sent to one port in the pair is immediately received by the other port.
Full Serial Emulation
Virtual COM ports operate the same as real ports and any application can use them as if they were real physical ports on your computer. Each pair of virtual serial ports supports all hardware wires and allows setting up any type of wire connection. If the emulated device works at a fixed speed, there is no problem emulating the desired baud rate with the virtual serial port driver.
Virtual Serial Port Driver PRO Features
Virtual Serial Port Driver PRO is an efficient and complete software that works on top of the functionality of the Virtual Serial Port Driver. The program makes it possible to create bundles of virtual serial ports and set custom parameters, making it a solution that can be used in various scenarios. Virtual Serial Port Driver PRO allows you to manage real and virtual COM ports easily and conveniently.
Split and connect COM ports
With Virtual Serial Port Driver PRO, you can split a physical serial port (such as COM1) into multiple communication ports (COM2, COM3, COM4, etc.) that appear in the system as hardware identical copy of the serial interface. Additionally, software solutions allow sharing of hardware serial ports between multiple applications. This software solution will make it possible to link multiple real physical COM ports to a single virtual port. When a serial application connects to this virtual port, it will simultaneously receive data from all connected COM ports.
Create Bundle Connections
This unique feature provided by the PRO software version enables you to set up and manage complex serial port bundles. This means you can transfer serial data over an unlimited number of physical and virtual COM interfaces. Serial data will be received by the COM port on the "IN" side and then redirected to all COM ports on the "OUT" side of the bundle and vice versa. What's more, creating master ports (input/output) for each side of the bundle enhances the process of hardware control wire management.
Automatic port switching
If your application can only use a limited number of ports, you can use a switch, which is a unique feature of Virtual Serial Port Driver PRO. This option allows you to connect multiple physical ports to one virtual port (you can also choose to assign the same name to all ports) and set up the switcher for this virtual rs232 port in the appropriate application.
Whenever your program needs to connect to a serial port, the switch will continue to identify an unoccupied COM port in the connection port list and make it available to the application. This means that your program will automatically interact with any free serial ports as if they were connected to the same port.
Merge COM Ports
The new advanced feature of Virtual Serial Port Driver PRO allows you to add an unlimited number of virtual COM ports to a single serial port bundle that is not divided into "IN" and "OUT" sides. Anything set to one port will be copied to the bundle's other real and virtual ports. Thanks to this breakthrough feature, now each app or device can exchange data with multiple apps/devices at the same time.
Advanced COM Port Testing
Another particularly useful virtual serial port driver feature is loopback. With its help, you can create fully functional virtual COM port packages with devious data bearer. Technically, the "IN" side of such a bundle is directly linked to its "OUT" side. So, no matter what data you are going to send, you will get the same data back. or not. This will depend on the correct operation of your ports.