The goal for Visual USB was to make USB protocol analysis as fast and easy for developers as possible. This required a new approach, and Ellisys introduced many new concepts including:
- Capturing and transmitting data in real-time, instead of filling a hardware memory and then wait until it is downloaded;
- Offering user-selected panes so users could customize their displays to see what they need all at once;
- Avoiding “screen clutter” by automatically hiding less-frequently used fields that can be revealed with a click;
- Using a raw-data pane to display highlighted bytes of fields selected in other windows;
- Grouping consecutive elements;
- Coloring packets according to specific criteria;
- Providing easy-to-use InstantFilters™ that can quickly narrow down large captures to just the traffic of interest;
- Allowing developers to insert live user comments.
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