3 Setting up the Serial Terminal Program - PuTTY

The user application receives system service commands on the serial terminal through the UART interface. This chapter describes how to set up the serial terminal program.

To setup PuTTY, perform the following steps:

  1. Connect the USB cable from the host PC to the J5 (USB) port on the Evaluation board.
  2. Connect the power supply cable to the J9 connector on the Evaluation board.
  3. Power on the board using the SW3 slide switch for Evaluation board.
  4. From the host PC, click Start and open Device Manager to note the second highest COM Port number and use that in the PuTTY configuration. In this example, COM Port 5 (COM5) is selected, see the following figure. COM Port-numbers may vary.
    Figure 3-1. Finding the COM Port
  5. On the host PC, click Start, find and select PuTTY program.
  6. Select Serial as the Connection type, see the following figure.
    Figure 3-2. Select Serial as the Connection Type
  7. Set the Serial line to connect to COM port number noted in step 4.
  8. Set the Speed (baud) to 115200, see the following figure.
  9. Set the Flow control to None, see the following figure and click Open.
    Figure 3-3. PuTTY Configuration

PuTTY opens successfully and this completes the serial terminal emulation program setup. See Running the Demo.