Bus Hound version 8.0

Experience the power of a software bus analyzer capturing I/O, low level protocol and send commands to devices.

Download the free version 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. Buy the full version or upgrade

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

OS Support Windows 10 and 11 Server 2019-2025 x64 and ARM64   + Windows versions back to Win95 and NT4 including XP and Windows 7 for full version customers

Device Support Blu-ray, DVD, CD Hard drives, tape drives Memory cards Web Cams, Cameras Mice, Keyboards, HID Printers, Scanners Speakers, Modems ...and everything else!

Power User Features • Capture terabytes of I/O at a time • View I/O on screen in real time • Trigger on conditions • Build and submit custom commands • Issue bus and device 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 and control transfers • Accurate, cancelable progress bars on all operations • Select or deselect individual USB endpoints • 64-bit hex editor

Ideal Uses • Chip design • 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






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